On Monday 26 July 2004 19:20, Erik Moeller wrote:
GNOME bounty
resulted in fixing 11 bugs
(
http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Winners.html).
Um, no, these weren't bugs but features, some of them quite significant.
That's for a system that has around 700 new
bugs opened weekly and as
much bugs fixed
Again, you do not seem to understand the difference between bugs and
features. The bounties were largely on significant features or changed
application behavior. To compare something like Gaim/evolution identity
integration with something like "combobox list mode doesn't support
scrolling" is simply ignorant.
come on Erik. While the number of bugs indeed is higher than the number of
opened/closed features it doesn't make the failure much smaller. Just check
http://bugs.kde.org/weekly-bug-summary.cgi
(yes, this is KDE, but for GNOME it won't be much different) - 133 wishes
opened, 185 wishes closed per week(!). And they fulfilled 11(!) features in 6
(!) months - that's hardly something I would call successfull.
I don't see any reason why developers should get money for implementing
features while Wikipedia contributers won't get anything for their time and
hard work. This doesn't sound fair to me. IMHO the money is much better spent
on hardware.
best regards,
Marco