[oi-dev] Paid change request aka Bounty

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi

Happy if you take it, and no worries about jumping in thats what safe environments and community is about aswell.
I agree that I don’t want to see them succeed but I also have seen that they are not going to. 
The Subscription is subsidized and costs them money rather than earning them money. So I am not concerned about them having the money considering we are helping to bleed them dry.
Packaging is not a complex task rather a long and tedious task requiring knowledge of unfortunately arcane Scripting languages. Programming languages that are trivial for any model Automation. 

I can see that people don’t trust that idea of spending money with such a big company. For the full automation I am also aiming for a local ran Automation. But that does require 5 to 7k investment into Computer hardware. Unless you have some ECC Memory and a motherboard laying around.
Even previous generation Hardware is still in use now due to the shortage. I am still investing into that though and want to do any larger automation initiative with Automation that run on my own hardware rather than a big tech corps one.

As for community in general we do have an active one. I loved to see Xfce work but people stop short of packaging. And this is not the only time this happened. btop is still earlier in the port and these kind of show and tells are lovely to see.

-Till

> On 22 Sep 2026, at 19:28, gemelen via oi-dev <oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> Sorry to jump into, but I'd like to comment on the Till's suggestion - this is exactly the
> kind of solutions that, in my opinion, should be weed out:
> paying for all problematic tech solution to a bigtech company instead of waging it to a person, that might be in a need to pay for the life supporting needs.
> 
> That's up to the Reginald in this case and to a person in need of a problem to be solved,
> in general, but I believe we want a community here first of all?
> 
> In order to provide an alternative, if nobody would vouch themselves, I'd rather do the
> requested change myself, even if I've never looked into the Audacity beyond occasional
> use.
> 
> On Tue Sep 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM -03, Till Wegmüller wrote:
>> Hi Reginald
>> 
>> Considering modern Tooling that I have tested recently the price for an individual Package is far less than this.
>> 200 Dollar gets you access to a Tool from either China or the US that can read the documentation and make that package and have Usage leftover to handle maintenance of X11 in the background, port a simple driver to rust run and test it over SSH. In the process accidentally cross compile said module and install and test it.
>> 
>> I am currently testing how well an independent GPU runnable version can do this but at current speed, that capability is only a couple of months out. If we could get this with a clean conscience that would be the best but it is what it is. There is a real risk of spam, but give it a high quality description what to do (best an onboarding guide like our docs) and perform rigorous local QA and it will produce good output. 
>> With 200 dollar I would grab a Codex subscription and make the package based on the newest Audacity which has a lot of improvements.
>> 
>> At this moment the project needs people that continuously keep a set of packages maintained and if that is with Automation thats ok. Contributors are more likely to not feed the docs to their AI and then the AI get the package wrong but simply feed the Computer the docs and it works. 
>> Spam and low quality will be handled but I am not preventing needed automation and helping out new automation efforts.
>> 
>> -Till
>> 
>>> On 21 Sep 2026, at 00:07, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev <oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
>>> I find the audacity link failure intolerable.
>>> I should like for someone sufficiently familiar with the repository code to implement a filter which prevents deposition in the repositories of packages which have run time linker issues. And also purge the repositories of packages which fail to link. For the work I propose a payment via the OI cooperative  of $200 USD to whomever performs the task.  For OI to survive it needs to develop a gig economy.  This is a first stumble at doing it.
>>> Have Fun!
>>> Reg
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