Sputnik for AmigaOS bounty cancelled

[ssolie]

Posting 1:
Due to lack of communication, slow development and broken deadlines I am sorry to inform you that the Sputnik bounty has been canceled.



Posting 2:
With the recent announcement that the Sputnik bounty is canceled I feel that it is of great importance we support those browser projects that is actively developed for AmigaOS4. Amigabounty was not created with the intention to focus on existing projects but when we are talking browsers I would like to point you to two (very) active developers that deserves all the praise they can get.

Chris Young is porting the CSS capable browser NetSurf. Visit Unsatisfactory Software to read more about NetSurf and download the latest release.

Jörg Strohmayer is porting OWB to AmigaOS4 and it can be downloaded from the OWB website.
OWB is also CSS capable and based on the well known Webkit rendering engine used by companies such as Nokia, Google and apple.

Both browsers are looking really promising and I hope every AmigaOS4 user remember to thank those doing something for the platform. I am also sure that a donation is more than welcome, take a look at the respective websites to find the donate buttons, or at least keep them in mind for when you get money from the Sputnik bounty returned.

Posting 3:
How to get your money back.

All money from the closed Sputnik bounty will be returned to the people who so kindly donated. I just have to ask that all people who donated send me an email with their name and Paypal address(email).

Many people stated that they wanted to donate their money to other OS4 developers, if you want me to do that (to avoid further paypal fees) remember to say so (and to which project) in your email. I hope many people choose to support the actively developed OS4 applications.

Please send me the email before 31.01.2009 so I can get the money back to all of you (or to other OS4 projects) ASAP. If I haven't received any email by the end of January 2009 I will donate your money to the developers of the OS4 version of either NetSurf or OWB.

Sorry for the trouble this caused.
My email is tersking(a)gmail.com

Source: http://amigabounty.net

[hooligan]

Lack of communication.. didnt Marcik post here just a little while ago giving a statusreport?

[uncharted]

Perhaps it was a lack of communication from him to the guy organising the bounty that was the problem?

[PulsatingQuasar]

@hooligan

That was after a lot of pushing to give some extra information about the progress.

I think bounties without deadlines are stupid anyway and I hope this has made that clear.

I think the whole bounty for a webbrowser for OS 4 was created because the Firefox one wasn't and isn't going anywhere and at the time it didn't look like anyone was willing to port a browser.
Then suddenly OWB and Netsurf appear which made the whole bounty for Sputnik mostly obsolete.

Since he already had the AmigaOne for a long while and then the lack of status reports didn't really help.

[hooligan]

Ok. I havent been following much as I dont have Amigas or Pegasos anymore.

[Painkiller]

Hopefully Marcik didn't waste too much of his time on this port. Anyways my personal opinion is that all bounties for any browser should be united to make one working browser and tie in more developers towards that.

[Matt_H]

No surprise here, unfortunately.

[Ruud]

It's a shame because choice is good.  On the other hand I personally don't like Sputnik that much.  OWB is one of the main reasons I use os4.1 on my SAM a lot more than I use Morphos on my Efika.  Once tabs and downloads are added to OWB I think it will be the defacto os4.1 browser.  Netsurf is also good and I'm interested to see how that develops.

Cheers,
Rudi.

[Crumb]

I don't understand it...

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=27644&forum=32&start=40&viewmode=flat&order=0#469265


"Posted on 19-Dec-2008 9:37:57


I was asked to post an status update here, so.

Work on sputnik version for OS4 has started about 2-3 months ago. It's already compiling and many important parts are working (like network code, font rendering). The biggest current obstacle is hacking MUI 4 part. I hoped to resolve them before christmas, and as it's the last big problem release some first beta but i failed. And i have 2 news. A good one: i know now how i can get tie my code into older MUI. A bad one: it'll be a rather big redesign and with my current free time it will take about 1-2 more months to complete."

[weirdami]

paypal fees could be avoided by refunding the monies.

[Troels_E]

@ALL

If you donated to the Sputnik bounty please read this.

As I will be away all of January I hope many of you decide what I should do with your donation ASAP.

If I haven't got an email on Tuesday it won't be processed until the beginning of February, as I probably won't have internet access where I'm staying in January.

@Weirdami
IIRC refunds can only be made for free within 30 days, we're a bit past that now :-)
Anyway I will be using my own Sputnik donation to pay the fee to transfer money back. So people will only have to pay the fee to transfer to amigabounty, not to get their money back.

[weirdami]

   3124.72 EUR

that's a lot of moolah!

[Krischan76]

http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/comments/231797.html

[weirdami]

http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/comments/231797.html

How did the poster of that post know that the guy doing the bounty had read the email he sent on that date? Some sort of AOL type deal?

[Golem!dk]

@weirdami

Have a look here.