Re: [glob2-devel] money for volunteers for net-rewrite?

[Leo Wandersleb]

Kai Antweiler wrote:
> This might help against the open source problem which Steph mentioned a few
> month ago:  That boring tasks get never done.
> But I'm sceptical that we would get new programmers.  And since our
> workforce is so small right now, I oppose this - for now.

we don't need new programmers. bradley is very productive recently. if only he 
would do those boring but also tricky tasks, this money would be his. if the 
solution is tested and works.
it is nice what he did, but not essential like other tasks. I'd like to 
motivate people for motivated tasks.

> Can't we just take an existing net-library or copy some code from
> another open source project like stratagus?
>
> After all networking isn't a glob2 specific problem.  There should be
> people out there that have already solved these problems.

As networking in glob2 isn't server-client, maybe we have a special case.
but maybe we should switch to server-client.

> If not, we could extract our network code and use it to start a library.
> Others might find it useful and start debugging it.

Sure. But this, too has to be done. It is one possible way to face our 
net-problem.

> > my only question is, who decides if a job was done right and who
> > gets how much money then. i guess that would have to be a person
> > with a certain idea of how much the contribution helped glob2 on the
> > long term.
>
> That would be Steph, Nuage or Bradley.

in short: the maintainer.

Greetings, Leo Wandersleb