[Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing over new features

Rick Wesson rick at support-intelligence.com
Wed Jul 27 16:07:39 UTC 2011


personally, if the software works better (less bugs) then btc will be more
valuable. offering bounty is orthorginal to finding the right technical lead
that will hurd the effort.

put a bounty (salary) on the person to lead the effort, not the bugs

-rick


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:20:07 AM John Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
> > <joel.kaartinen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Perhaps even add a way for anyone add to the bounty attached to a bug
> on
> > > the bug tracker? Also, a listing page for bugs with their bounties
> might
> > > be nice too.
> >
> > Good idea. I'm not sure if the github bug tracker supports extension
> > attributes, but it'd be a great place to add it. Also, people can let
> know
> > that they're already working on a feature using a comment, to prevent
> > double work.
>
> I'm not sure a few small bounties would justify agreeing to GitHub's steep
> demand for potentially unlimited money in their terms of service...
>
>
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