How to move AROS forward

[Louis Dias]

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How to improve AROS:
Instead of the wants and desired being separate, come together, form a consortium, pool the bounty money and decide in order which bounties AROS NEEDS and prioritize them.  Then let programmers bid on only the top one.  They declare how much money it would take them to code it...  Then onto the next bounty if their is money left over...  Etc...  So 3 coders offer to code the top bounty, coder 1 says he'll do it for $3,000, #2 for @$2,500 and #3 for $2,750.  Bids can be private, bounty is publicly assigned to #2...

[Louis Dias]

bloodline wrote:

lou_dias wrote:
Back on topic...

How to improve AROS:
Instead of the wants and desired being separate, come together, form a consortium, pool the bounty money and decide in order which bounties AROS NEEDS and prioritize them.  Then let programmers bid on only the top one.  They declare how much money it would take them to code it...  Then onto the next bounty if their is money left over...  Etc...  So 3 coders offer to code the top bounty, coder 1 says he'll do it for $3,000, #2 for @$2,500 and #3 for $2,750.  Bids can be private, bounty is publicly assigned to #2...

A bounty doesn't work like that. If I put $10 into a bounty it's for a spcific task, for something that I want.

Perhaps we could set up a GeneralBounty, that people can submit to, and let a "board of directors" decide where the Money goes depending upon what is considered most important. But honestly, I doubt it will be as sucessful as what we have now. There is no money in the Amiga platform anymore, what we do now is totally for fun... that includes funding bountys and developing for the various AmigaOS Clones.

I know it doesn't work like that currently, but it seems people donate to what they want (niche), meanwhile what AROS "needs" remains neglected...  Typically, the needs of AROS benefit everyone, not a niche set of users...
I say refund all the bounty money.  Set priorities and then accept general bounty money then let the programmers with skill bid on the bounty for what they think it (and their time) is worth...

How much money would it take for you to do the Kickstart replacement?  That would benefit more people (CloneA, NATAMI, MiniMig) than a port to ...even though I'm sure you'd like to port it to an ARM platform, for instance...