Re: user vs. user (was: User vs Developer: Round 2 (and half-time?) (was: Re: music font)

[Shane Brandes]

Sounds like a really useful idea. It would just need a bounty hunter,
i.e., someone to clearly put the offered sum or sums in a readily
apparent spot.

   Shane

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2012/1/24 Tim McNamara <address@hidden>:
>>
>> On Jan 24, 2012, at 5:57 AM, Graham Percival wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:50:13AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2012/1/23 Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>:
>>>>> why I never *demand*
>>>>> developers to fix an issue, even if it is one that is really annoying
>>>>> my ego in almost every score I typeset.
>>>>
>>>> One thing comes to my mind: you are talking about bugs that annoy many
>>>> people, and they waste a lot of your own time.  Have you considered
>>>> organizing a collective bounty to fix that bug?
>>>
>>> We now have a webpage for this:
>>> http://lilypond.org/sponsoring.html
>>
>>
>> Good idea!  As a non-programmer, offering feedback and money are the best 
>> options I have for supporting Lilypond development.
>>
>> It's not clear how to offer a bounty on a specific issue through the 
>> Website, if that is even possible.  Also, it's not clear there is any way to 
>> contribute to some sort of general fund to pay for server space, bandwidth, 
>> other operating expenses.  Maybe those things are covered already, I don't 
>> know.
>
> The bounties are handled in the tracker:
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list
>
> Paste in the search bar of the tracker:
> label:Bounty
>
> and you'll see them.
>
> I think that the bounties should be advertised on the sponsoring page.
> A brief description and a link to
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list?can=2&q=label%3ABounty
> What do you think?
>
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