small, but perhaps crucial self-correction:

"Anything that would take more than a week of part time (say a total of
10 hours) of work and need to be represented by multiple milestones
needs to somehow be broken up into seperate BOUNTIES..."

Ken

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:38 -0600, Ken Causey wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:42 -0500, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I ran across this article while doing some research.  Thought people
> > might be interested.  
> > 
> > http://dneary.free.fr/gimp_bounties.html
> > 
> > I have not personally decided if bounty systems are good or bad, but I
> > do think that it is very difficult to do properly.  
> > 
> > Just FYI,
> > 
> > Ron Teitelbaum
> > 
> > Ron at USMedRec.com
> 
> What I take from this is that if bounties are offered at all, they
> should be small.  I don't mean that the dollar amounts should be small,
> but that the goal to be met for the bounty should be small.  Anything
> that would take more than a week of part time (say a total of 10 hours)
> of work and need to be represented by multiple milestones needs to
> somehow be broken up into seperate milestones, hopefully ones that can
> be tackled by more than one person (although not necesarily
> simultaneously).
> 
> I should of course note for completeness that I am not in favor of
> bounties being offered by SqueakFoundation.  I have no problem with
> offers from 'unofficial' individuals.
> 
> Ken
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