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[Amiwell]

We as users could open a common fund to finance the development of who will do it do not know

[terminills]

We as users could open a common fund to finance the development of who will do it do not know

I wanted to do a general bug fixing fund years ago but it never caught on.   Deadwood years ago put together a papercuts project which was very helpful getting users involved with hunting bugs.


https://sourceforge.net/p/aros/papercuts/?page=1

[Amiwell]

I understood I did not know of your project to be allocated to Odyssey could be done now by involving everyone, certainly then you have to involve someone who does the job

[Amiwell]

I'm not a mercenary I would like to do something useful as a user

[terminills]

I understood I did not know of your project to be allocated to Odyssey could be done now by involving everyone, certainly then you have to involve someone who does the job

You're better off starting small to attract developers IMHO.  Get some developers working on small bugs get them interested in AROS period. 

[AMIGASYSTEM]

In fact, you have to catchprima sympathy for AROS, and above all have a stable system where you can raise the foundation, complex software will come later automatically when there is a good number of developers.

[deadwood]

You're better off starting small to attract developers IMHO.  Get some developers working on small bugs get them interested in AROS period.

I support that approach. Papercuts are actually often good entry level bugs that do not need deep AROS knowledge but have fast ROI in form of user feedback and appreciation. I'm also happy to help introduce any new developers to AROS code base.

[Amiwell]

how should it be proceeded?

[G-linx]

Indeed, for that I'm thankful.
Any ideas how many developer hours it would take to update Odyssey? Perhaps that's a question only deadwood could guess at

Deadwood alone can't be the answer for every AROS needs. We urge to find people with good will to help him.

This bothers me every time I see something like this.   As much work as Deadwood is doing which is great BTW.  He is not the only one doing work on AROS he's back-porting work from many other developers plus doing his own fixes.  As a matter of fact if you look at the main REPO you will see there is a limited amount of developers working on AROS at all right now.  As far as I know the main REPO has a total of 3 developers committing code right now.  So it would be quite easy to give them all credit for their continued work.

Absolutely correct

[terminills]

You're better off starting small to attract developers IMHO.  Get some developers working on small bugs get them interested in AROS period.

I support that approach. Papercuts are actually often good entry level bugs that do not need deep AROS knowledge but have fast ROI in form of user feedback and appreciation. I'm also happy to help introduce any new developers to AROS code base.

The problem with the "general fund" is there's no rules for it an no one has a clue how to access the money for projects other than the original donors requesting their money be moved.   I had suggested a papercuts fund where we could designate say $20 per papercut or whatever to pay developers to fix bugs.   I think this would be a good way to get some developers to put their toes in AROS.   The problem is when I spoke with Andre last we really need to describe the fund in a very specific way for it to be used that way.   

We don't have a ton of users or even rich users but we certainly can afford to drop $5-10 ea a month into such a fund.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about.


https://www.power2people.org/funds/aros/ This is the "general" fund.   I wouldn't suggest donating to it I would suggest replacing it with one that can be used on a well defined papercut fund.

[G-linx]

how should it be proceeded?

Recruit Dan Wood for PR
We all sign up with a small monthly donation
Deadwood/other developer to allocate the paper cuts
with a small reward
Almost forgot.. Stephen Jones for his cunning business plan aptitude!

(The last time I spoke to Stephen was in a phone call 30 odd years ago when he was calling around selling extension keyboard cables for his checkpoint 1500 case!)

[Amiwell]

Okay I can donate 1000 euros, I am not rich but I have been using Aros for years and I do it with gratitude to everyone

[Amiwell]

I think you have to see what are the bugs to correct at the moment

[terminills]

Okay I can donate 1000 euros, I am not rich but I have been using Aros for years and I do it with gratitude to everyone

Don't put the cart before the horse.  but that being said maybe it's time to start a new thread.

[G-linx]

I can't match salvo but I'm down for $200 now and C$20 a month