From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 13 12:46:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from parhelion.firedrake.org (parhelion.firedrake.org [212.135.138.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE6137B403 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 12:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from float by parhelion.firedrake.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177LlX-0005xf-00; Mon, 13 May 2002 20:45:51 +0100 Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:45:51 +0100 To: David Schultz Cc: Terry Lambert , "Brandon D. Valentine" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP Message-ID: <20020513194551.GA22374@parhelion.firedrake.org> References: <20020504001121.GA3310@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20020503233143.S16006-100000@leto.homeportal.2wire.net> <20020511004814.A43416@HAL9000.wox.org> <3CDCCFD8.E9D3AD23@mindspring.com> <20020511012333.A43578@HAL9000.wox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020511012333.A43578@HAL9000.wox.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i From: void Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:23:33AM -0700, David Schultz wrote: > > I think you're on to something here. Just imagine: > > A: ``I'll give you $200 to add $foo to the base system.'' > B: ``No, *I* bid $300 to get someone to work on $bar.'' > ... This has been mooted before, and I think people have even made efforts to implement, but it's never taken off in a big way. I have seen several people offer USD100 to the first person to fix a particular bug. The claimer of the bounty usually asks that it be contributed to the FreeBSD Foundation, which is nice. -- Ben "An art scene of delight I created this to be ..." -- Sun Ra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message