[yorickg]

Iam a java dev my self, just started using runemate.

thinking about giving it a try, open source so people can help.

 

[joeme]

The issue with these things is the planning:
-Who sets up the GoFundMe (or similar)?
The party that will benefit from selling the product sets up the GoFundMe

-Who decides on features/specification?
The party that will benefit from selling the product decides on features. Lack of features = Lack of money raised.

-Who decides the price, is it community driven or do authors compete for the project?
The party that will benefit from selling the product decides on price. They need to be able to agree how much they're working for.
I don't think the general community is able to vote into deciding the price. This thread started by a 75$ offer for the complete project.
Price should be discussed within the senior community techs, and endorsed by them if it's agreeable.

-How is the author to be paid (upfront/in pieces/on completion)?
Upon completion.

-Who decides if the bot meets the specification in order to be paid out?
Feature checklist.
To be more accurate, feature list should be extensive in details.

-Is this even a thing which should be open for all bot authors?
As in open sourcing the code? to my knowledge open source software does not follow this model.
Furthermore, maintaining the code up to date for a big project means that access to the project would have to be paid for in monthly fees.
I think this is the reason why we don't have these bots yet, because there are no bots which require a monthly fee.

 

[party]

The issue with these things is the planning:
-Who sets up the GoFundMe (or similar)?
The party that will benefit from selling the product sets up the GoFundMe
No, it would have to be set up by RuneMate, otherwise there's no regulator.

-Who decides on features/specification?
The party that will benefit from selling the product decides on features. Lack of features = Lack of money raised.


-Who decides the price, is it community driven or do authors compete for the project?
The party that will benefit from selling the product decides on price. They need to be able to agree how much they're working for.
I don't think the general community is able to vote into deciding the price. This thread started by a 75$ offer for the complete project.
Price should be discussed within the senior community techs, and endorsed by them if it's agreeable.
Competition is the best model, but that isn't possible if it's going to be in-house.

-How is the author to be paid (upfront/in pieces/on completion)?
Upon completion.

-Who decides if the bot meets the specification in order to be paid out?
Feature checklist.
To be more accurate, feature list should be extensive in details.
Given RuneMate would have to be the regulator, it would have to meet/surpass our standards.

-Is this even a thing which should be open for all bot authors?
As in open sourcing the code? to my knowledge open source software does not follow this model.
Furthermore, maintaining the code up to date for a big project means that access to the project would have to be paid for in monthly fees.
I think this is the reason why we don't have these bots yet, because there are no bots which require a monthly fee.
No, I don't mean open source, I mean should every author have the opportunity to compete for the project?

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Either way, I feel like this probably isn't the place to be having the discussion. If people feel like discussing then please feel free to raise a thread in Discussions.

Going to close this off for now because the request is going to be declined by everyone that looks at it and a request thread has been opened elsewhere.