[sldev] sljirastats.com Linden Metrics Report & Public Perception

[Jason Giglio]

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Felix Duesenburg wrote:
 > This is not meant as an incentive for OS developers to contribute code
> more than they already do. That's clearly not needed, 

I disagree.  The number of patches coming in is pretty low, and a lot of
them are 1-liners.

> the motivation is 
> there. It's also not meant to compensate OS contributors, because that 
> would likely violate a number of regulations and good customs. Not to 

What?  Open source contributors work for money too.  Bug bounties and
other payment/prizes for open source code *is* the custom, I'd say.  I'd
say it would be exceptional for a company to not offer such things.

> mention that the sum would be too meager to make up for the actual value.
> 

Well, that's true.  A more typical bounty is $500 US, which still
doesn't really pay for the development, it's just an incentive.

> Instead, it is intended to implement a regular procedure inside of LL 
> with which they oblige themselves to care for these contributions and 
> make a deliberate effort to include them. At least once per month. This 
> could only be torpedoed by a lack of quality input, but I don't think 
> this would be happening too soon.

I don't know.  It may help, but it doesn't address the root cause of the
problem:  That Linden Lab views themselves as a separate entity from the
community; that the community development process is completely outside
the actual development of the client.  If anything, this might reinforce
that idea.
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