[pLog-svn] Look what I found

[Reto Hugi]

Hi Jason

Thanks for your (IMO) well thought out and differentiated comment, I
liked it. :)


On 02.06.2005 20:10, Jason King wrote:
> You could set up a bounty system like Horde has. That way if people 
> really want stuff done they can offer cash money for someone to do it 
> for them. The catch, does the new code get GPL'd or does it belong to 
> whoever paid for it, or whoever wrote it?

Bounty Systems got lots of attention recently, probably because of the
success of Ubuntu Linux, using this system extensively. I think this is
indeed a great way of supporting OS developers. But I'm actually not too
optimistic that this system would get *lots* of attention if adopted for
pLog. Anyway, setting up a Webpage and advertising this system wouldn't
hurt much.

BTW, has anybody ever clicked on that PayPal button and actually payed
something?

> But I think the important thing is to get to the bottom of whatever it 
> is that's bugging everybody about this and try to solve that. Is it that 
> plog isn't getting the attention it deserves? Developer's aren't getting 
> any compensation from the project? Other people are 'stealing' ideas and 
> plugging plog code into their projects?

That's the point! As Oscar mentioned already several times, it's very
important that devs have fun whith what they are doing. Even more a OS
dev aims for getting respect and attention from others in what he is
doing (the coding). Ranting, stealing code and asking alleged dumb
questions isn't really doing good on before mentioned factors.

What to do?
- focus on implementing things first *you* like most (Oscar gets one
point for implementing the mobile plugin ;)
- don't get feedback in forums personally. the forum is just too
anonymous to do so. (this is not easy, i know)
- maybe devoting more time on documentation, which is rather boring and
probably completely contradicts the first point. Oh, well. I guess I
don't know any golden rule either...

reto