Port Mozilla, Collect $3696

An anonymous reader writes "The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga that Amiga programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time. The booty currently stands at $3696. Parties interested in making some extra cash to pay off student loans/go on a wild bender can find more infomation here."

Comments

I would rather see it coded well

[earthforce_1]

Than coded fast. Code that is cranked out in record time ususally isn't efficient or stable. How do you verify that the winning code contains no major bugs?

Re:I would rather see it coded well

[peksik]

I believe the idea isn't to get fully tested bug-free code, but moreover to get a somewhat working version of Mozilla to kickstart the development. It would work both as a proof of concept and a nice base for the port.

$3696 / 160 =~ $23/hr for one month

[Speare]

If the port should take four man-weeks to do, that works out to about $23 dollars per hour. Somehow I think they're going to need to collect more bounty before developers would "fall all over themselves" for the task.

That said, if I had extra cash, I'd offer bounties for small programming tasks. My home life doesn't afford enough hacking time to do all of the ideas I write down, and I would love to parcel them out for a hobby-sized bounty to students or other junior coders who also want to use it as a learning opportunity.

Re:Good to see the Amiga community still alive

[TCM]

Would Moz even be able to run on an 8 mhz Amiga 500.

You overclocked yours? 1337!

thought it might be a interesting project...

[Anonymous Coward]

and then fell to the floor laughing uncontrolable because i found what i was looking for (its in the FAQ):

Q: What will be the requirements and the minimum spec for the Amiga version.

A: Well that will depend a lot on the programming team that tackles the port and their skillset but the spec I would like to see is Amiga OS 3.9 and above and/or WinUAE/Amiga Forever/Amithlon/AROS/MorphOS. 68030+ CPU, faster the better, 24 bit Graphics card, 32MB of RAM. I would also like the coders to try hard to make it work with AGA.

get it ! get it ! they are talking about the original amiga series, not the new one with the 600mhz PPC !
mozilla isnt even running lag free on my dual P3 with 512mb ram omg omg this is so over the top :DD

Take the money and run!

[WwWonka]

$3676? Hmmm....

$40 to build a shocking Xbox controller.
$100 to buy a Dremel Powertool to explode Steve Miller Cds to infinity
$300 emergeny room visit to have a RN look at your electrical burns on your hands and to pull CD shards out of your ass.
$3236 To start litigation against /. for insipring your creative genius to aforementioned experiments.

23$ an hour is HUGE

[CrazyJim0]

I just graduated CMU with a degree in CS, I'd take a $10 an hour job if I could find one.

The problem with this thing is that second place gets mo money. So if you coded for 150 hours and someone else finishes, then you got paid 0$/hr. To me, this is unacceptable because I always end up getting shafted like that.

Re:$4000?

[mdwh2]

No offense, but this would pay for about 10 days of a junior developer's time.

And much money do the guys porting Mozilla to other platforms receive?

This is open source. Of course, the amount of money isn't going to attract someone who is looking to do programming for commercial gain, but I don't see that anyone is claiming it is. $4000 is a lot more than the $0 that is up for offer by default on open source projects.

The idea is that if someone is perhaps tempted to port it (be it for fun, or whatever else drives people to write software for free), then the cash is a little extra incentive.