Re: ambitions of Abi-word

Michael A. Peters wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 13:43 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
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>>We don't do voting because we do not want to give a false impression
>>things will happen just becuase someone votes for them.
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>>All the work on Abiword is done by volunteers* if they are interested in
>>doing it.
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>>There are certainly ways you can encourage developers to add certain
>>features, for example by providing clear and detailed descriptions of how
>>a feature should work (including screenshots, sample documents or any
>>other relevant information).
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>I like the ideas of bug bounties - where users can submit a bug or RFE,
>it is determined to be worthy, and then users can donate to a bounty to
>pay a developer to implement them.
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I was thinking in an other direction. Perhaps student could be
interested to adopt features as a part in there (programming) education.

>I believe gnome.org has a bounty system - but it seems that only
>corporations are able to participate in sponsoring bounties.
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Received on Sat Nov 19 10:36:13 2005