Comments on: Why bounties fail http://blog.melchua.com/2008/10/06/why-bounties-fail/ Braindumps on things Mel Chua has found shiny lately. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:06:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Debasis http://blog.melchua.com/2008/10/06/why-bounties-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-1179 Debasis Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:22:03 +0000 http://blog.melchua.com/?p=598#comment-1179 Hi Mel, You have got a great blog up here. Just to say thanks for mentioning my blog in your post. Happy Blogging... :) -Debasis Hi Mel,

You have got a great blog up here. Just to say thanks for mentioning my blog in your post. Happy Blogging… :)

-Debasis

]]> By: Kevin Mark http://blog.melchua.com/2008/10/06/why-bounties-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 Kevin Mark Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:33:14 +0000 http://blog.melchua.com/?p=598#comment-1085 The amount of effort required to fix any bug if converted into money would not be worth the time or effort. If you took the hours to research, search, try, debug, and document a bug, it would be huge. I fixed a bug yesterday for OLPC. I noticed it 4 months ago. It bothered me and other follow xo'er. It sat in the back of my mind and festered. So yesterday, I spent about 6 hours reading code, examining the wiki and making some tests. The result: 1 fixed bug and a personal sense of accomplishment. Could money have motivated me to do it faster? Maybe? How much money? $1, $10, $100,... Hmm. Maybe $100. Or some olpc swag. But ESR said it long ago, its a gift economy we geeks inhabit with various forms of currency, not always pieces of eight, arg! The amount of effort required to fix any bug if converted into money would not be worth the time or effort. If you took the hours to research, search, try, debug, and document a bug, it would be huge. I fixed a bug yesterday for OLPC. I noticed it 4 months ago. It bothered me and other follow xo’er. It sat in the back of my mind and festered. So yesterday, I spent about 6 hours reading code, examining the wiki and making some tests. The result: 1 fixed bug and a personal sense of accomplishment. Could money have motivated me to do it faster? Maybe? How much money? $1, $10, $100,… Hmm. Maybe $100. Or some olpc swag. But ESR said it long ago, its a gift economy we geeks inhabit with various forms of currency, not always pieces of eight, arg!

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