AmiZilla Booty Splits Four Ways

[Ants]

BinoX

I would change that slightly..

I think the person who ports it to any OS first should get 50% of the bounty and then the remainer will be split 3 ways..

This is because whoever gets a port done will get a bad deal because other people will (most likely) use their code as a base to port it over to the other OSes...

An OS4 port won't make it simple to do an OS3 port- they can use OS4 features like Linux lib (.so) support, we may still need to work out, plus there has been a lot of work done on the OS3 port already, so the Amizilla team really deserves some credit for all their OS3 work! And The OS4 port is most likely to be done first!

Plus a 4 way split is the most practical way to do it (any other way gets messy...), and the easiest to sell to the Amiga community!


-Ants
AmiZilla Coordinator

[Ants]

@ ajlwalker

I wouldn't worry about money- even with the full bounty- we found it hard get devs to work on the OS3 version- at least with a OS4 version, some problems will be solved for us, and hopefully it will also give us a Template for what needs doing for an OS3 version.

@nBit7

I wouldn't worry about competition- just worry that someone's actually doing something! There's only Andrea and the AmiZilla team who have any chance of doing something. AmiZilla don't have anything to do with OS4 port, and I don't think Andrea is interested in OS3 port.


-Ants
AmiZilla Coordinator

[weirdami]

I prefer booty to be split only one way.

[Einstein]

I think Open Source is the way IMO, open source Sputnik (dear author) or let all amiga like OS projects to gather under one single open source webbrowser project, float myCents = 0.000001;.  :idea:

[mattabat]

Of course, there should be a proviso that, if by the  year 2010 there is no port at all, that the money should go to charity. The EFF, or something.

[billt]

Of course, there should be a proviso that, if by the year 2010 there is no port at all, that the money should go to charity. The EFF, or something.

If the bounty does not go to a port of Firefox/Mozilla then I want my $20 back.

[nBit7]

I wouldn't worry about competition- just worry that someone's actually doing something! There's only Andrea and the AmiZilla team who have any chance of doing something. AmiZilla don't have anything to do with OS4 port, and I don't think Andrea is interested in OS3 port.

Well then I guess this is a really good move then.  As these developers were never in a position to claim the booty (because they were only interested in one port) now can access part of it.  This could be just the extra motivation they need to complete their port.

[madsjm]

Of course, there should be a proviso that, if by the year 2010 there is no port at all, that the money should go to charity. The EFF, or something.

"Of course"? What's so obvious about that? If anything, the money should go back to the contributors.
Even so, 2.5 years is not very long, especially in the Amiga world.

[dammy]

Better suggestion would be 50% goes to first OS4/MOS/AROS port and then the last 50% goes to AOS port?  Likely who ever does it for AROS/MOS/OS4 would want to pick up that last half of the bounty for AOS port.

Dammy

[pixie]

The way I see it there's nothing stopping anyone from getting at least half the bounty straight away, AROS and AmigaOS aren't that much dissimilar, and the platform needed to develop for both of them is easy to achieve, not to say that most have a PC already..

[Colin_Camper]

I don't think this or the money will make any difference.

I think a browser is too big to develop for one team and I think the Firefox browser is too alien for one team to hope to port to Amiga-like OSs.

I think it would be better to have a series of AROS bounties aimed at making the underlying technologies available through an API;

Eg: HTML and rendering
CSS
Javascript
Java
HTTPS

etc etc

This way each implementation would make it trivial to develop a browser with that functionality.

With this API we could finally, as a community, stick a finger up to all the buffoons and racketeers who revel in embarrassing us on a monthly basis on OSNews etc.   :-D

[pixie]

I think it would be better to have a series of AROS bounties aimed at making the underlying technologies available through an API;

Eg: HTML and rendering
CSS
Javascript
Java
HTTPS

etc etc

This way each implementation would make it trivial to develop a browser with that functionality.

With this API we could finally, as a community, stick a finger up to all the buffoons and racketeers who revel in embarrassing us on a monthly basis on OSNews etc.

@Dammy:
What about this kind of approach?

@Colin_Camper:
What about posting regarding this subject on A-E?