Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity,

On 18 January 2012 18:27, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've suggested this before without much response, but since this thread
> seems to be encouraging repetition I'll give it another go.=C2=A0 ;)
>
> I think a bounty system would be very effective(e.g. micro-donations of
> recent political campaigns) in getting many of these problems resolved.=
=C2=A0 The
> main problem with a bounty system is getting people to pay since certain
> needs/desires lose their urgency over time.=C2=A0 To address this, the sy=
stem
> needs to be an escrow type setup where money is pooled until project is
> complete, then payment in full is given.

This has a lot of problems in itself: people would just turn around
and say that bugs will not get fixed unless they get hard cash for the
fix, or FreeBSD might end up in the situation where devs get paid to
fix the bugs they introduced, deliberately or innocently, essentially
getting paid to fix their own sloppy code, which is not that great
either.

--
Igor M.
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