Bounties secound try (agree or bash just spell my name right;)

[Ely Levy]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Alex Deucher wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:16:44 +0200 (IST), Ely Levy
> <elylevy-xserver at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > After not getting any respond whatsoever to my last email I'll try again.
> >
> > 1) Trying out bounties won't hurt anyone.
> > 2) All I need from you guys is help in founding bounties idea and
> >    a general permission to try it in xorg's name.(which is important
> >    as I'm going to try to get people to contribute money for it).
> > 3) If anything official need to be done to handle the money.
> >
> > So please take a few minutes and write some bounties ideas,
> > if you can write how long/how much work do you think it would take.
> > And if you have even a bit more time please help out by writing
> > as accurate description as possible to what need to be done.
>
> Bounties may be a good idea for some things, but I was thinking of
> more of a general xorg development fund.  People would donate to it
> and the money would be used to pay the developer time needed to
> implement whatever major features were requested (support for new
> chips, new XAA, etc.).  With a Fund, you'd be guaranteed of results,
> however, it's probably a more significant initial outlay of cash
> required.

It just sounds a lot more complcated than just a bounty maybe we should
start small and see how it goes?

Ely