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#661
Hi Robert,

of course you were right when donating to him directly, as it was not tied to the specific bounty!

And from that perspective... I fear that my attempt to sponsor "Paul" by sponsoring the "GNASH" bounty might have missed the intention. But that is neglectable, as at the end of the day Paul gets some money in an "official" way (so that other people are aware of it) and that's all I wanted. ;-)

In general, I think we must try to clearly separate bounties from feedback or, to put it that way - don't use bounties as a way of feedback. ...and by saying "we must try" I actually mean myself. ;-)

At some point, it is getting difficult: The bounty system is a very tentative way of giving feedback in a "public" way so that everyone can see that someone has done something for a developer. I think we also need "public" ways of providing *feedback* - e.g. when I say "thank you, Paul" it should be visible to everyone, maybe this encourages other users to do the same.
Perhaps many folks out there might think "A developer won't care if I say only <thanks>..." and that is something that can be changed by letting everyone else see your thankfulness... even (and especially) without money.

One of such ways of public feedback/thanks is an award - like the os/2 world awards. We should have such things (or better additional, different things) on a more frequent basis...?

Oops. Getting off-topic too much, I think I should make this an article...

Greetings
Thomas
#662
Hardware / Re: GPS
2007.05.21, 23:55:45
Guys,

that's interesting - the last time we were joking about that subject, we were talking about eCS as a car PC operating system and were wondering about some kind of GPS / maps-application combination.

In the meanwhile, I played around with google maps and obviously, both size, scale and coordinates of course can be passed along the URL, which BASICALLY means that if you have an arbitrary GPS device and a very, very basic OS/2 driver that is able to programmatically poll or fetch the longitude/latitude, you can build such kind of application on your own using a (rexx or whatever) script.
Requires an internet connection though, because of google maps. FWIW - I just wanted to give some suggestions, maybe someone else now suddenly has got a great, better idea or concept... anyway, just my 2 cents... ;-)

Regards,
Thomas
#663
Hi guys,

basically, I agree that an open bounty with no money in the pot doesn't look very inviting and that this should be changed.
On the other hand, I feel that one of the nice facts about the bounty system (in its current state) is that *anyone* can suggest a bounty because he/she has an idea or need - regardless if he/she has money available to sponsor the bounty.

Let's see how we can make both ends meet - what about this:
Users can still suggest a bounty without spending money. But: If nobody has sponsored that bounty for -say- 1 month, it gets closed and waived.

That way, we will have open bounties were at least 1 person is willing to pay (something) but still people can come up with ideas without having to pay for it (or losing their money, whatever...).

Let me know what you think of that (and if that is feasible or too much work for the bounty admin)

Regards,
Thomas
#664
Hi Kim,

interesting... will reply to that in the given thread...

Regards
Thomas
#665
Hi all,

let me start by telling that I don't know too much about the internals of FT2 and what it takes to get the thing run on OS2/eCS (beyond a c++ compiler). I can imagine that it involves a lot of dirty ground-level skills and grey cells to do the job.

Nevertheless:
Has anyone a clue whether a FT2/2 (freetype version 2.x for OS/2) would have benefits over using Innoteks font engine... and assuming we could have a FT2/2: Would it work with Mozilla etc. without additional work?

You see - what drives me most is to know if a FT2/2 would be "better" in matters of stability/performance and (most important:) quality! I don't know if you have noticed that Innoteks engine does smooth fonts but to the price of the font*sizes* being... well, somehow "glitched"...
If you compare a rendered version of e.g. a website in Mozilla with a "plain" one (no font engine) you will notice that the rendered pages use fonts which are "too small". If a ported FT2/2 would overcome that (even if it wouldn't render faster than now), that would be worth a bounty which I would spend quite *some* dollars for! I would even beg the bounty admins to drop my TrueCrypt bounty share in favor of FT2/2 since it seems that nothing will happen in that regards any more... ;-)

Ideas? Answers? Suggestions? Comments?
Anyone? :-)

Cheers
Thomas
#666
Hi Kim,

just noticed the *new* amount of the bounty, and - ahhh - this looks FAR better now. ;-)

Regards,
Thomas
#667
Hi all,

as I can't stay to see folks like Paul (who provide ongoing support and efforts to the "community") suffering from the shame of being not rewarded for it, I have raised the bounty a little (bucks should arrive in a couple of minutes).

I can't help but repeating it again:
I understand that many people don't have the (financial) means to express their thankfulness or at least to support developers. But a simple "hey, thanks!" should do however. If people could provide additional information like "It runs here and I'm using eCS 1.2 GA" that's already a valueable information, isn't it (to some extent; at least better than nothing).

Personally, I don't really use any of the things that Paul is porting to our OS (to my knowledge) but I'm pretty sure that a lot of stuff I'm using wouldn't exist without his work - because other peoples work is based upon his. "losing Paul" might not have any direct impact on most people's daily usage but it impacts 3rd party software that uses Pauls work.

And BTW:
I love that part where he says "what pisses me off the most...". That's it!!
I would love to see more people talking like that, maybe this provides a crispier and sharper image about the REAL LIFE situation of that so-called community.

Regards,
Thomas
#668
Hi Kim, Björn, et.al.,

I am missing a "link" which leads me to a pre-filled paypal form for sponsoring a bounty that is already open.
Can you give me the necessary data (recipient mail adress, how to specifiy the exact bounty's name...)?

Thanks in advance, greetings
Thomas
#669
Hi folks,

...so you are waiting for more money to give to Paul? This is fine with me - I'll care about that. Check back the bounty in a couple of minutes. ;-) It's not because you asked for it, it's rather something I was thinking about myself already during the last days. It's a shame. People are great when finding excuses for not paying 5 bucks "because I have no credit card", "...paypal", "...bank acoount".... bla, bla...

Why not come up with the idea of "feedbackware"?
People will get a "free" license onyl if they provide "valueable" feedback, e.g. system setup, config.sys, etc. they are running the program with. No feedback - no usage. :-)

CU
Thomas
#670
Hi folks,

well, ehhh... I didn't quite understand, I'm afraid... what are we talking about?
Whether or not Paul should be allowed the bounty?

In that case - heck - YES!
It was about "porting GNASH". And that's what he did, didn't he?
It was NOT about bugfixing GNASH or extending its features on the OS/2 platform.
So for gods sake: HE DESERVES IT.

And BTW: Paul will not stop working on something just because he got the prize. That's not Paul. :-)
As for the plugin stuff: People ae free to sponsor a new bounty for that, if that is really desired, but for now I see the bounty "fulfilled".

Regards,
Thomas