The program is currently awarding a total of 2700 USD to work on a list of 7 critical bugs/features on the path to SeaMonkey 2
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KaiRo.at - Robert Kaiser IT-Services is the one-man-business of me, SeaMonkey Council member Robert Kaiser. The money comes from my earnings through Google AdSense on the SeaMonkey German website - and as that income rises with SeaMonkey adoption in German-speaking countries and my business is mainly around SeaMonkey, my interest is in improving SeaMonkey so that more people will use it. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it isn't. It is the whole truth. Believe me.
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What's driving this program is the idea of rewarding people for their work on important parts of SeaMonkey and to give an additional motivation for developers to implement the listed features. The money is earned through the community using SeaMonkey, it's only fair to give something back to those who work on improving this software.
August 6th, 2007

The Bug Bounty Program started in 2007 by KaiRo.at - Robert Kaiser IT-Services ("KaiRo.at") tries to encourage developers to get involved with SeaMonkey by rewarding them with some hard dollars for contributing important code to the SeaMonkey project.

As such, resolving certain bug reports that are recorded in Bugzilla in the way specified on the www.KaiRo.at pages will be awarded certain amounts of money.

# Bug 387416 - Dynamic UA Spoofing Mechanism
# Bug 255834 - Feed (RSS/Atom) reader for SeaMonkey MailNews
# Bug 381157 - Make SeaMonkey download manager use toolkit backend
# Bug 313822 - Make Lightning work on SeaMonkey
# Bug 379183 - Port new Firefox page info to SeaMonkey
# Bug 278831 - Make Plugin Finder Service work with SeaMonkey
# Bug 270443 - Port browser info bars to SeaMonkey

It was nice to see a first patch for an item of the Bug Bounty Program just one day after announcing this program!

Daniel Brooks has picked up the page info improvements, and his newest patch looks really good. We're getting a reworked, more polished page info window with more functionality (without losing any compared to the old one, the forms and link tabs are still there) - oh, and this is probably the first part of SeaMonkey that will see some feeds support as well (by listing feeds available on the page).

Just a day and a half later, Teune van Steeg attached a first patch on another bug from this list, adding browser notifications / info bars to our software. This is an important feature for use with other code, and I'm happy to see something moving there as well.

Thanks to both contributors for picking up those items!

While nobody has started to work on it yet, I had some talk about feeds support on IRC: Robert Sayre (sayrer), who worked on toolkit's feed parser (which we should use), is willing to help anybody working on our code when questions arise, Myk Melez (myk), who did the Forumzilla extension, is willing to answer such questions as well. As there are two different ways of integrating feeds with mailnews out there (Thunderbird's and Forumzilla's), we got into some talk about that, but both our SeaMonkey mail owner Karsten Düsterloh and me think the Thunderbird solution of having them in special accounts is the cleaner solution, which we prefer.

I hope someone pick up this and the other items on the list soon, so that we see even more good progress for a better SeaMonkey 2.

Entry written by KaiRo and posted on August 10th, 2007

Для Лисы есть такие "Направленные" программы?

Может в новости?

1) Больше починенных багов в SeaMonkey
2) Больше пользователей SeaMonkey

что он это делает только ради денег

Трача денег

УРА!
Из симанки не будут убирать таб с линками и формами...