Re: Contribution to Octave as a PM

[Markus Appel]

On 02/05/2014 03:21 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:12 PM, fgnievinski <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Another contribution related to your project management skills could be
>> finding ways of facilitating the delegation of tasks.  The current situation
>> is such that existing developers are super busy, while aspirant contributors
>> soon give up if the open projects look daunting or unclear.  Here's a
>> practical remedy idea: take some of the donated money and offer symbolic
>> direct bounties (e.g., 2 cents) for tasks that would be considered trivial
>> for experienced developers, such as bug triage, easy fixes, etc.  I know,
>> the idea might be bad -- I'm just brainstorming here.
>> -F.
>>
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> Ok, sounds liek a thing to try. Now how would you implement any idea
> that requieres Octave transferring money to developers? I am not sure
> that is possible. for sure one could do it on a personal basis,
> somebody send money to somebody else.
> - What would be the initial money needed to test one of these ideas?
> (we can collect this form the current user pool) and How do calculate
> such things?
> - What platform one could use to provide this? Does FSF has anythgin
> we can use or we would have to set up a website (more dev time!)?
> - Can we use Agora for this? (this would be awesome) How, who can
> provide the dev time?
Being myself on the verge of wanting to increasingly contribute to
octave as a developer, I think the idea of an organized and maintained
list of well defined tasks "for beginners" is a great idea. If someone
solves a task and it gets marked as 'solved by John Doe' on that
centralized list, the reward of seeing your name there as new
contributor should be enough as "symbolic bounty" and worth far more
than an actual money transfer which probably comes with a higher
organizational overhead.