Rent a coder for open source software improvement
Monday, December 1st, 2008Coding Horror had a post today about the various websites that are out there for freelance programmers. It seems to be hit or miss based on whether projects succeed, although smaller projects with details specifications tend to do better.
Two pieces of opensource software that I use a lot, LyX and FreeMind, both lack active spell checkers. Currently LyX has a 2000 Euro bounty for active spell checking. There are preexisting spellcheckers for Java, so it would hopefully be relatively easy to add it to FreeMind. Regardless, I don’t really have the time to do this, so I wonder how effective it would be to try to out source this code to rentacoder or a service like it.
