On 07.03.2006, at 11:00, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Marcus Denker wrote:
>>> What are the opinions of the people on this list?
>> We have already discussed about bounties on the SqF board list,
>> and it would be interesting to know the opinion of people about this.
>> I personally think having a platform for posting/managing Bounties  
>> would
>> be very nice to have... I can't say I have a clue of how good this  
>> works,
>> but it would be an experiment we should do.
>
> Hasn't this experiment already been tried? It looks like
>
> 	http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2653
>

Hmm... I don't know if we should count a random, not very widely linked
(and known) wiki page as an existing bounty plattform...

> contains a list of enhancements with bounties in the range of $100  
> to $1000. AFAIK, none of these have ever been claimed, and I'd also  
> be curious to better understand why people "sign up" for these  
> bounties (if they do sign up at all - I wonder how many of these  
> bounties just go to people who happen to work on the problem anyway).
>

Yes... it would definitely interesting to know what kind of  
experience other communitues have with bounty sytems before
starting one. Maybe it does not work? I have no idea.

The Google Summer of Code thing seems to be quite successfull,  
though. And the amount of money there was in the
range of typical Bounty amounts ($3000, I think). For a Student, this  
is a lot of money...

     Marcus