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Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!!

Submitted by sragavan on Fri, 2004-08-06 11:31. GNOME

GNOME Foundation is proud to announce the relaunch of the open source desktop integration bounty. The aim of the contest is to recruit new developers and to more tightly integrate the various projects that make up the desktop into a more coherent, and complete user experience.

This contest is sponsored & authored by Novell and is being administered by the GNOME Foundation

The contest consist of new set of small projects and also the unsolved old projects from the previous rounds.

Complete the hack, enter the contest, and collect the prize.

Unlike the round one and two, there is no time deadline. The completed project will go into the upcoming GNOME release, depending upon the freeze dates.

People participating in the contest will be hanging out on the #bounties channel on irc.gimp.org.

To find out more information about the Desktop Bounties, check the web site:

http://www.gnome.org/bounties/

Thanks for everyone who participated so far!

Happy GNOME hacking! :-)

Re: Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!!

Submitted by foo on Fri, 2004-08-06 17:48.

It is not that simple. The coherence of the gnome community is important. Hanging out bounties for people to implement features for apps where the maintainers of those apps were not consulted or are not interested is insulting and creates divisions withing the community.

It does matter if it is coming from gnome or novell. There is a lot of momentum that epiphany gained and maintains because it was officially sanctioned by gnome as being the default gnome web browser. Diluting that perception erroneously by implying that gnome has gotten behind firefox steals from that momentum.

Related to that second point is an issue of momentum and coordination of development efforts in general. Calling out for random features to be hacked in sideways to an existing application infrastructure diverts potential development resources and in the end can create more problems because extra features should not be "hacked in". A coordinated effort should be organized to create appropriate backend infrastructure so that adding the desired features is easy and natural development.

Not that all feature bounties fall into these traps but clearly that is the case for some so caution and community oversight ("protest") is in order.

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