Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:28:32 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> Cc: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breaking "build world" costs $5? (was: Can we please have acurrent that compiles?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000515162737.5152L-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <391FE2F5.9CB7411C@originative.co.uk>
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On Mon, 15 May 2000, Paul Richards wrote: > "Brian W. Buchanan" wrote: > > > > On Mon, 15 May 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > > I see this money scheme as an extension of the "finger pointing" > > > > which does nothing to build team spirit. > > > > > > That depends very much on the way it's taken. At the moment, people > > > take the pointy hat voluntarily, not because it's forced on them. > > > It's my expectation that the $5 should be in the the same spirit. > > > > Exactly... it's not meant to be a complicated system of fines or to > > discourage people from developing (at Desktop, we certainly don't want > > that!), it's just a little bit of good-natured public humiliation to > > encourage people to think (and maybe test) before they commit. :-) > > The only problem being that at Desktop you can drop the $5 into the fine > box when you leave work but I'd have to walk down the bank and either do > a wire transfer or send an international money order. Apart from the > hassle involved there's the fact that all told it will cost me in the > region of $30-40 to pay the fine! > > A nice idea but not very practical for the FreeBSD project. > Just theoretically, there are e-gold and other payment things that are all that tied to things like 'geographical location'... > Paul. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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