Bounties secound try (agree or bash just spell my name right;)

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:31:55AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Ely Levy wrote:
> > After not getting any respond whatsoever to my last email I'll try again.
> > 
> > 1) Trying out bounties won't hurt anyone.
> 
> Uhm... what do you mean with "bounties" here (maybe it's described in
> one of the 8000 emails I've fetched from the POP3 server (e.g. the usual
> email collection from the last week while I was in Boston) but I can't
> find it right now... ;-/) ?

Bounties are small rewards on usually small-to-medium bits of code, e.g.
someone agrees to pay $us100 to get BC between Xinerama 1 and Xinerama 2,
and this gets paid to whoever completes according to guidelines set
before the work is started.  Payment is usually via PayPal or something.

Novell and Canonical both do this, and GNOME has a general bounty system
with contributions from various community members, IIRC.
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