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badders:
Anyway, all i was asking was how i can offer a bounty, i really dont care about the details, the idea being:

1. Offer bounty
2. someone perhaps takes me up on bounty and does the work
3. said someone gets paid

The original questions is simply "how i can i offer a bounty sensibly"

Llorean:
Please read our forum guidelines before posting again.

The point JDGordon was trying to make is that bounties don't magically make something any easier, or necessarily any more likely to get done. There is information missing, and until it somehow becomes available, whether this feature can be completed is more or less dependent on someone having very specialized skills. There is no proper place to offer a bounty, but the forums are pretty much the worst place because most of the developers don't read here.

That being said, if you want to do it "right" you need to figure out a way to ensure the funds will still be around and available when someone finishes the feature. Simply offering it doesn't mean you'll be around, or reachable, once someone's done with it, for example. Aren't there websites for offering open source bounties as it is?

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: badders on August 25, 2007, 10:54:46 AM ---Im not quite sure if this is what you mean, but a quick google turns up
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We do not know how to use the hardware (it's a serial port of the CPU -- PP502x). The protocol itself is known and not the problem.

badders:
I know bounties dont make anything easier, but like i say, all i want to do is offer one. The work might happen, it might not, im not interested in discussing the virtue of bounties or the details of implementing this feature. Heck, your own wiki suggest offering a bounty, and thats all i want to do. I dont understand this massive need of yours to go completely off point, all im asking "is there a rockbox project preferred way of offering a feature bounty". The wiki makes the suggestion of offering them, with no more info. I dont care about the details of the technical implementation of the feature, i just want to say "if anyone gets this done to some specific level of functionality, i will give that person X amount of dosh". it might invcentivise someone, it might not, i just want to make the damn offer.


--- Quote from: Llorean on August 25, 2007, 11:11:40 AM ---Please read our forum guidelines before posting again.

The point JDGordon was trying to make is that bounties don't magically make something any easier, or necessarily any more likely to get done. There is information missing, and until it somehow becomes available, whether this feature can be completed is more or less dependent on someone having very specialized skills. There is no proper place to offer a bounty, but the forums are pretty much the worst place because most of the developers don't read here.

That being said, if you want to do it "right" you need to figure out a way to ensure the funds will still be around and available when someone finishes the feature. Simply offering it doesn't mean you'll be around, or reachable, once someone's done with it, for example. Aren't there websites for offering open source bounties as it is?

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Llorean:
You'll notice I did offer you some advice on posting a bounty as well. You haven't asked any further questions regarding it.

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