7 Apr
2005
7 Apr
'05
8:18 p.m.
--- Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
Two issues I see here:
1) Developers. Do you mean that each developer will be paid? How will
this be done? equally shared? Not to sound like an ass, but there may be
times when a developer does absolutely nothing (read: me for the next
month), while someone else is hacking away 100KLOC of code. Or someone
that generally only does little fixes (which can be really useful, and
is all the useful time he can offer due to work/family/school) versus
someone which already has assured income and spends 24 hours a day
working on Reactos. Would it be fair to pay everyone the same amount of
money? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding the issue, but I just want to be
fair. Besides, I'm sure many developers might want to refuse getting
paid. Working for free is sometimes a personal choice, and the offers
certain tangible and psycoligcal advantages. I don't know about others,
but I myself would feel bad in many ways to receive money by working on
ReactOS. I would feel as if any bugs ormistakes that I make now have
monetary losses associated with them.
The idea is to start with the ReactOS Foundation does two things in terms of paying
developers.
1. Offers bounties for certain features or bugs in bugzilla. Call them 1 time cash
prizes.
2. Acts as a escrow or broker for third parties wanting to offer a bounty. (see 1)
I don't think this will discourage development. There are tons of little features I
would like to
see that no one is working on atm where a bounty system would be nice. If I had $500 spare
I would
put up a bounty for the 3com driver or for the NMake backend for the xmlbuildsystem. Also
single
user contributions could be pooled for a bug. NOTE: I DO NOT WANT A PLEDGE SYSTEM. THEY
DON'T
WORK.
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO CONTRIBUTE MONEY TO A BUG THEN THIS WILL BE THE BEST WAY!
Think about the following
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Steven Edwards Enters bug #311337
"Make ReactOS have a 3com Vortext (959/930) driver"
Alex gives $50 earmarked bug #311337
Steven gives $100 to bug #311337
Some random user throws in $200 for bug #311337
Someone decides "hey $350 will pay for a nice weekend at the beach! I'll take
it!"
And they start coding. They get a working driver and it passes QA so it goes in SVN.
The ReactOS Foundation then writes a check for $350 to said developer.
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2) I think expos should get more then 5%. An expo of 4
people would cost
around 2000$ (assuming 150$/night * 3 nights, plus food and other needs,
*4 people). Now at minimum we'll probably want to attend a North
American and a European conference, meaning 4000$. The European one is
bound to have more then 4 people anyways, so with 6 people, it'll up the
cost to 6000$. 5% means that we would need 80 000$ in donations. Seems a
lot to me at this stage. Then again, we probably won't want to pay the
full cost of an expo at this point, but whatever, I'm just giving ideas
and I hope they help!
Nothing is set in stone as we have $0 cash flow atm. It will be up to the board to decide
on a
final budget. I just want to have a rough plan in place as I am going to start soliciting
help for
funding.
I would love to be on the board. I think I have some
pretty good ideas
for moving forward, and it'll be a good short break from coding when
I'll happen.
I want to get something up on foundation.reactos.org and then have a discussion on the
ros-foundation list on what needs to be ammended in the bylaws and we can vote on
restructure,
memebers, etc.
Thanks
Steven
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