Announcement: GnuCash Bounty Program GCBoP in June/July 2013

[Cristian Marchi]

Does it make sense to post this announcement on facebook and google+? If 
I'm not mistaken that was already discussed but I can't find and 
remember the conclusion.

Regards
Cristian

Il 29/05/2013 9.53, Christian Stimming ha scritto:
> Dear Developers,
>
> after some internal discussion we've decided to use part of our available tip
> jar funds for running the
>
>    GnuCash Bounty Program "GCBoP"
>
> The program is described on the wiki page
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bounty_Program , copied in part below. Feel free
> to send me any comments and questions that come up.
>
> Goals
> --------
>
> The goal of the GnuCash Bounty Program "GCBoP" is to make good use of some of
> our available donation money, specifically for the following aspects:
>
>   * Get some issues fixed that have been a pain for many users but somehow were
> not interesting enough for developers previously
>   * Attract new contributors by rewarding them for working on those issues
>   * Stimulate current contributors to take on issues that remain open for too
> long
>   * Experiment with this sort of bounty program in an Open Source project
>
> How does it work?
> ------------------------
>
> The GCBoP program puts a bounty on the completion of any of the tasks that are
> listed on our GCBoP page [1], for any contributions received between June 1
> and July 26, 2013.
>
> Some of the current developers will be act as Evaluators. As soon as some
> contributor sends in a patch that completes a task, one evaluator from our
> Pool of Evaluators will evaluate this contribution and decide whether a task
> is "done" so that the bounty is paid.
>
> See [1] for details.
>
> What are the eligible tasks?
> ------------------------------------
> The following items from Bugzilla (see [1] for the clickable list) are tasks
> whose completion will be rewarded by a $200 bounty (or 160 EUR):
>
>     * 514492 Win32: Crash when loading data file with invalid txn dates
>     * 669964 Importing log file from a transaction that moves money between
> mutual funds creates a brokentransaction
>     * 672595 If the data file is not saved when the new file wizard terminates,
> no confirmation is issued if you exit gnucash
>     * 678103 Crash when creating new invoice
>     * 691587 Crash while loading corrupted .gnucash/stylesheet-2.0
>
> Criterion for choosing those tasks: They have severity CRITICAL and remained
> opened for quite some time already.
>
> Also, the following items from http://gnucash.uservoice.com/ are tasks whose
> completion will be rewarded by a $200 bounty (or 160 EUR):
>
>     * Transaction Classifications (Bug 113772)
>     * Add Undo Functionality (Bug 509267)
>     * Make it easier for users to work with alternative/non-ISO/private
> currencies. (Bug 657215)
>     * Add the ability to attached scanned images to invoices. (Bug 336843)
>     * Type ahead search when entering the accounts to a transaction (Bug
> 545160)
>     * More charting: Budget vs. Actual chart (Bug 700801)
>     * Better Budgeting (Bug 700802)
>     * Allow the database to be secured by way of a password (Bug 700803)
>     * Manually change ordering of Transactions (Bug 700804)
>     * Allow saving of Custom Reports without changing name, overwriting
> existing report (Bug 649284)
>
> Criterion for choosing those tasks: Those are the Top Ten feature requests by
> count of the user's votes. (Excluding the "declined" ones due to the immense
> structural changes they require.) And yes, they are not easy to do. That's the
> whole point of the GCBoP program.
>
> Questions? Comments?
> --------------------------------
>
> Feel free to send any comments and questions that come up to me privately or
> here on the list. I'll summarize and send out the final announcement on June
> 1st, when GCBoP will actually start.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Christian
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bounty_Program
>
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