Re: Bounties

[mike]

Moving to devel:

I think this bounty slush fund needs to happen soon-ish - there's been 
two rounds of talking about it, which is great, but it will remain talk 
unless someone does something.  I also understand that David is in the 
position of not wanting to do a full court press for organizing the €€ 
thing because he wants to be earning some of it, which I respect.  So I 
am going to do something - if people have a problem with it, then speak 
up, but I'm throwing this out there as a solution.

1)  Create an e-mail address "address@hidden" (this I can't do 
- can someone please do this).
2)  Create a PayPal account for said address with one and only one 
person, the € czar, who has access to it.  This should be someone 
responsible and respectable .  In my life, I have drank, lied and 
listened to a lot of ABBA, so I am out, but there are several people on 
the list who seem like upstanding individuals who could fill this role.
3)  Propositions come in on the devel list from developers in the form 
of "I have project X and I would like Y€ from the slush fund to do it."  
This will then go up for a private vote (like patch review) where anyone 
who has git push access can send a vote email to the € czar.  If there 
are more yeas than nays, the person gets the € for doing thing X (in 
advance of doing it - it'll be a trust system).  The € czar has the 
final say over whether or not to approve the project in order to prevent 
abuse, and the € czar needs to agree to not be allowed to tap into this 
fund, lest she give up her role as € czar.

Seems simple, effective, and startable in the next two weeks.  I'm sure 
it is not perfect, but LilyPond is not perfect, and it seems better to 
start something and change it as need be than to not do anything.

Cheers,
MS