Bounty Program finished - a short review

Mattias Põldaru mahfiaz at gmail.com
Sat Aug 10 03:22:39 EDT 2013


09.08.2013 18:51, G. Paul Ziemba kirjutas:
> christian at cstimming.de (Christian Stimming) writes:
>
>> However, the program unfortunately did not attract the attention of any
>> developer who wasn't already active within gnucash.
>> [...]
>> Did we do too little announcements? Are there websites or places
>> around where more interested people would have picked up the news?
> I only recently re-joined the mailing list a few weeks ago and was
> unaware of the bounty program until then. I wonder if an announcement
> on slashdot.org would have netted additional interest. I speculate
> there are a lot of readers there who look favorably upon gnucash and
> might be induced to participate.
Maybe posting slashvertisment with the conclusion from Christian would 
gain some interest afterwards?
Maybe something like (take the title with a little salt, this is journal 
afterall and add some links and correct factual and grammar errors):

Ask Slashdot: GnuCash bounty program partly failed. What did we do wrong?

GnuCash project leader Christian Stimming finds that bounty program does 
not attract new developers. The bounty program started ? weeks ago and 
was finished only recently. The project was announced on blogs ? and 
even made the news ?. Although all the secondary goals such as all bug 
reports with added bounty were reached, reaching the main goal of 
growing developer base failed. No new developers stepped forward, 
furthermore, we got exactly zero questions about the project.
Are all projects of this kind bound to fail or is this specific to 
GnuCash? Did we do something completely wrong?


Regards
Mattias


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