On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:24:59 +0200
Tobias Scherbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I think it's a *very* bad idea - both from a QA and a "team spirit"
> point of view.
> Instead of having such "commitfests" and bounties for the one who
> managed to get as many as possible commits done within - say - 5 minutes
> I'd rather suggest giving out bounties to developers who fixed important
> bugs and/or implemented often requested features, for example like GNOME
> did in the past. "Bounties" not necessarily as in "money" but as in
> hardware, books or $foo. Also those bounties mustn't be offered by the
> Gentoo Foundation, a "near-ideal" bountie-implementation would allow
> users/companies to offer bounties to get certain bugs fixed or
> pre-defined features implemented.

I have to agree on this.

Marius
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