Hi, again! As it seems to be very hard to work on fixing bugs we should do something to make it more attractive. Is the fixing of these bugs so important for us, that we like to spent some of our (money) donations for that purpose!? What about a prize for fixing bugs!? The most difficult part would be to judge who get what, i.e. it seems not so good to give the prize to the normal maintainer or upstream author as they should work on avoiding bugs and not fixing them. What do you thing about a lottery then? For each fixed (better closed) bug report you get one lottery ticket for each month the bug was open. The more bugs you fix the more lottery tickets you get ... This can than be open for maintainer and upstream authors, too. But perhaps the amount of lottery tickets for the latter ones should be limited to prevent misuse through self generated bugs. The prizes must not only be money. We could also collect some attractive things like T-Shirts, coffee mugs, CDs, books, etc. from sponsors. Each sponsor will be named on our lottery page (incl. a link/logo?). This way it's more attractive (even for non-maintainer) to work on fixing bugs in Debian. It's not so difficult to judge, because there isn't a direct payment. What do you think? Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany leutloff@sundancer.oche.de http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ leutloff@debian.org Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.de.debian.org/
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