$$$ Bountys on ReactOS development - 0.2 Relase

[Steven Edwards]

Hello All,
I want to get everyones feedback on this before we move forward. I am
interested in setting up a donation system on ReactOS.com and .org to
fund bountys on parts of ReactOS that none of our developers are
interested in developing. I am thinking like network card drivers,
parts of TCP/IP, and the security sub-system. I want to move the idea
of the ReactOS Foundation forward and currently it looks like the only
way we are going to get any support comming in is with this sort of
system. I have some people helping me on grants and such but thats
going to take quite a while.

Here is how the system would work.

1. Donations on ReactOS.com of $5 or more recive a CD with "ReactOS
Preview" Version 0.2
2. Bugs are created in Bugzilla for parts of ReactOS that are nasty and
no-one wants to work on.
3. ReactOS project members vote on the bug and a bounty is issued for
like $250 to $500 US.
4. Once a developer submitted code to address the issue ?Vizzini?, ?Ge?
and ?Eric? and ????? would review and merge. A check would then be cut
to the lucky developer.

Please I want to hear your feedback and I am sorry for cross-posting to
all of the lists.

Thanks
Steven

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[Mark Grosberg]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Steven Edwards wrote:
> Please I want to hear your feedback and I am sorry for cross-posting to
> all of the lists.

I think this is a great idea. Selling CD's works well for the OpenBSD
community too. The code is open-source but the CD and easy installation
are something you pay for on OpenBSD. I can't see why the same model
wouldn't work for ReactOS.

ReactOS is an important project. I'm surprised there are no commercial
sponsors.

L8r,
Mark G.

[Steven Edwards]

Hello Mark,
--- Mark Grosberg [e-mail] wrote:
> ReactOS is an important project. I'm surprised there are no
> commercial
> sponsors.

There is discussion going on right now about if this should be done by
the foundation or a commercial organization.

Thanks
Steven

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