[FFmpeg-devel] Bounties?

[Justin]

Well, I'm shocked at how many conversations have happened while I've 
been asleep.

The message was supposed to bring on more of a discussion about 
implementing bounties, but I'm glad to have spurred the conversation 
about adding presets for all devices -- there was one comment about 
iPods being a fad -- but even if that's true, there's dozens of 
portable players that would benefit from a conversion tool like 
ffmpeg -- portable media players aren't going to disappear anytime 
soon.

As for making an iPod the bounty...  iPods are hard to split amongst 
teams, where as cash is at least somewhat divisible.  I wouldn't be 
against the idea though.

It sounds like the idea of accepting bounties in order to prioritize 
development tasks is acceptable to the majority of folks who've 
responded -- the next question is...  Is there a pre-existing 
community that handles this?  I know that 
http://www.bountycounty.org/ is in operation, but it doesn't appear 
to be updated very frequently.  (Last post in 2006.)  Can someone 
recommend a service that administrates this, or do I just go and make 
a Paypal 'tip jar' and administrate it myself?

-JD.