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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 ChipX86 on Sat, 2004-08-07 13:02.

There's no reason to fork.

I've been working for some time on libgaim. It's not officially released yet, but several projects are using betas of it. We created it so that other IM clients could be written that have gaim's functionality yet a separate UI.

We've set things up so that if people aren't happy, it won't be too hard to make a replacement. I've discussed possibly working on a GNOME-specific app using libgaim with better desktop integration.

A few groups have tried to fork gaim without going the libgaim method. None have lasted more than 3 releases. It's a lot harder than it looks, people. And believe me, we're not trying to be problematic. You should see the number of patches, bug fixes, and tech support issues we get on a daily basis. That's not including the disagreements within the project on how best to do things.

We can't accept everyone's patches, although bounty patches should definitely be given priority. Talk to Sean about those.

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