Okay, I've done my bit for sept07
Thank you for the EUAE bounty donation and Aug's TeamAROS-Benefactor's donation. Not sure you cancelled the subscription afterwards, but feel free to come back. I'll put you on the TeamAROS-Benefactors ML for Aug since you do have a vote coming to you.
Now, what happens when a deadline on an assigned bounty is passed? Will the assigned bounty go back to open, or will the developer have to give a status update in the news section?
Depends actually on the bounty and the developer. Typically the Dev will ask for a 50% extention which is typically granted after a quick poll on TeamAROS ML is generated. If the bounty is really for one dev and there is no alternative dev to do it, we just let it ride. Example of this is AROS64, Dr. Schulz had mutliple real life issues come up but since it's his project, we let it ride till he can finish it.
I notice that most assigned bounties have passed their deadlines. But all the news only speak of donations, and not how the bounties are progressing, or if any cvs commits have been done.
No, only one is past the deadline, AROS X86_64. To read the deadline's format is year-month-day since North America an EU have different date formats. Example, for me, today's date is 08-20-07 (Aug 20th, 2007). Typically News is either generated automatically via donations (scripted thanks to Olivier2222), assignments, major donations, system news, reassignments, and completions. Project status is delt with the TeamAROS ML (vs TeamAROS-Benefactors ML which is a closed list for Benefactor's use only). TeamAROS ML is open to any to join and archives can be found
here. I query the Dev on his bounty at the half way point of his/her bounty time, and then at final 30 days and at the last 15 days for project updates. Commits to the SVN is handled via AROS's ML.
Dammy
TeamAROS
