£5,000 of bounty matching goodness
Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:47:00 GMT
Once more, we at ROOL are going to put our money where our website is and start matching bounty contributions from you good people. For the remainder of 2018, we will match any donations into our bounty scheme (excluding the General bounty and recurring donations) up to a total of £5,000.
We have significant work underway on the filing system (including support for partitions – at last!) and the networking stack (improving security). Now is a great time to build upon this progress and show your support.
Please note: we will update the bounties to reflect our matching roughly once a week. Don’t panic if you make a donation and don’t immediately see our matching contribution appear – it’s a manual process on our side so we’re minimising the amount of admin it creates!
A good incentive that I hope it providing some good donations from the RISC OS community.
RISC OS FTW!
With 3 of the bounties marked in progress, it’d be an ideal time to launch a new one (to give it the best start while the matching scheme is active). Of course, I’d suggest something Econet related, but I’m sure ROOL have a long list of more pressing items!
I’d like to see some of the existing one that have been waiting to reach their estimated bounty target be claimed and under development before another few get added. I think the C compiler one has been there forever.
I’d love to see the following:
It’s hard to know whether the quantity of bounties open dilutes things, or whether it’s the theme.
We’re a bit heavy on techy and stack ones (in my opinion). Sprinkling in some others might capture some interest, both from pledgers and bounty hunters alike.
I’ve been tempted to tackle the C compiler bounty, if only to get it out of the way so that another bounty can take its slot. But my todo list always seems to keep filling up with other things.
What options are there for non-techy ones? The only ones I can think of are:
There are a few in-progress techy things (filesystem partitions, multi-monitor, network stack) which will be wanting some new user-friendly UIs creating at some point – having bounties for those might make sense. But I’m not sure it would be sensible to allow the UI to be created before the underlying feature is in a testable state.
Just making the observation, I don’t have a firm list of suggestions. All I had was:
My list of techy ones is far far longer, most of which Alan’s already touched upon, plus a few other left-of-field ones.
The roadmap document has pretty much a list that will keep coders busy for years if they wanted too.