Announcement: GnuCash Bounty Program GCBoP in June/July 2013

Christian Stimming christian at cstimming.de
Wed May 29 04:27:26 EDT 2013


Am Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2013, 10:20:40 schrieb 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.

Yes it does make sense. However, I'd say you should wait until the weekend 
with that, in case some discussion raises good points to change the 
description in some ways.

Regards,

Christian

> 
> 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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