Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:05:18 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:53 -0600, David Nicol wrote: > On 1/10/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 20:29 -0600, David Nicol wrote: > > > On 1/9/06, Yaroslav Rastrigin <yarick@it-territory.ru> wrote: > > > > > > > Unfortunately, bounties doesn't work :-/ > > > > > > > > > No? Bounties seems to work fine for Asterisk. Is the problem, still no central > > > linux kernel bounty system? > > > > > > Many bounties don't work because they are too low, too vague or both. > > For example several months ago Ubuntu offered $500 to "fix all remaining > > ALSA issues for PowerMac hardware". HA! That's like 5 or 6 diffent > > drivers which ranged from not working at all, to sound works but no > > system beeps, etc... > > > > Lee > > > How did they offer this bounty? Through the ubuntu announcements channels? > > Like if, say, Linux International was to partner with TipJar.com to create > and maintain an organized open bounty system where stakeholders wanting > to see something could contribute to the pot for the feature and the first > implementor who passes the tests (including code readability!) gets the pot. > > Write me off-list to become involved in this project or to direct me to > an already existing project so I don't waste more time on wheel reinvention?
Heh, I only found out about it when some Ubuntu user mentioned it in an ALSA bug report. I guess they just expect people to find them somehow. So yes, there needs to be a single, central resource for OSS bounties.
I think a lot of these problems with the PPC drivers were later solved. But my point was really that $500 was not nearly enough for the amount of work that would have been required. It's a nice bonus for someone who would have done it for free anyway but I was under the impression that bounties were created to solve problems too tricky or unrewarding or uninteresting for someone to do for free.
Lee
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