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digitalmars.D - Autobounty?

reply Shammah Chancellor <anonymous coward.com> writes:
I don't know if this was discussed in the recent bounty thread.  
However,  I thought it might be neat if we were to setup our own bounty 
website that parses the d bugzilla better and does something that I've 
seen in many boardgames -- autobounty.

My idea is this:  Allow people donate to D bounties in general, and 
each day place add a small amount to the bounty of each bug.   The 
longer bugs are open, the larger the bounty becomes.  Eventually it 
will become large enough to make it worth someone's time to fix.   
Right now, with around 4000 open bugs in the bugzilla, this would be a 
lot of money each day, but maybe D will eventually become popular 
enough to make the bounties more than very small amounts.   Also, the 
benefit to this is we can avoid the 10% fee that bountysource has.

Thoughts?   I would be willing to write the code to do this in vibe-d 
if there is interest.

Personally, I'm willing to donate a good amount of money to bounties, 
but I'd rather do it in the above format.

-Shammah
Dec 04 2013
next sibling parent reply "develop32" <develop32 gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 12:24:38 UTC, Shammah Chancellor 
wrote:

 I don't know if this was discussed in the recent bounty thread.
  However,  I thought it might be neat if we were to setup our 
 own bounty website that parses the d bugzilla better and does 
 something that I've seen in many boardgames -- autobounty.

 My idea is this:  Allow people donate to D bounties in general, 
 and each day place add a small amount to the bounty of each 
 bug.   The longer bugs are open, the larger the bounty becomes.
  Eventually it will become large enough to make it worth 
 someone's time to fix.   Right now, with around 4000 open bugs 
 in the bugzilla, this would be a lot of money each day, but 
 maybe D will eventually become popular enough to make the 
 bounties more than very small amounts.   Also, the benefit to 
 this is we can avoid the 10% fee that bountysource has.

 Thoughts?   I would be willing to write the code to do this in 
 vibe-d if there is interest.

 Personally, I'm willing to donate a good amount of money to 
 bounties, but I'd rather do it in the above format.

 -Shammah


Wouldn't that make people ignore fixing fresh bugs with no 
bounties accumulated?
Dec 04 2013
parent "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 12:33:35 UTC, develop32 wrote:

 On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 12:24:38 UTC, Shammah 
 Chancellor wrote:

 I don't know if this was discussed in the recent bounty thread.
 However,  I thought it might be neat if we were to setup our 
 own bounty website that parses the d bugzilla better and does 
 something that I've seen in many boardgames -- autobounty.

 My idea is this:  Allow people donate to D bounties in 
 general, and each day place add a small amount to the bounty 
 of each bug.   The longer bugs are open, the larger the bounty 
 becomes.
 Eventually it will become large enough to make it worth 
 someone's time to fix.   Right now, with around 4000 open bugs 
 in the bugzilla, this would be a lot of money each day, but 
 maybe D will eventually become popular enough to make the 
 bounties more than very small amounts.   Also, the benefit to 
 this is we can avoid the 10% fee that bountysource has.

 Thoughts?   I would be willing to write the code to do this in 
 vibe-d if there is interest.

 Personally, I'm willing to donate a good amount of money to 
 bounties, but I'd rather do it in the above format.

 -Shammah


 Wouldn't that make people ignore fixing fresh bugs with no 
 bounties accumulated?


To some extent. It also might encourage fixes to be left for 
longer in order to accumulate bounty.

I would prefer to see the bounty calculated as a proportion of 
the total pot calculated from the number of votes the issue has 
in bugzilla.
Dec 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "eles" <eles eles.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 12:24:38 UTC, Shammah Chancellor 
wrote:


 My idea is this:


While I agree with the fact that tis might be appealing, I feel 
like the ebst is to let the bounties be provided by a commercial, 
external and rather neutral actor such as Facebook. I mean, they 
tend to bounty those things that they need and this is something 
that everybody understand.

OTOH, mixing community and money does not always result in good 
things. People in the community they already contribute with 
their work and I fear the effect that a commercial approach would 
have on this.

Maybe we could vote some "bug of the week" every monday (or 
sunday), then forward it to Facebook with a recommendation for 
bountying it. This will create enough buzz and motivation for it, 
but also allow the community spirit to go on.
Dec 04 2013
parent "Fra" <Fra b.it> writes:
On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 13:37:47 UTC, eles wrote:


 Maybe we could vote some "bug of the week" every monday (or 
 sunday), then forward it to Facebook with a recommendation for 
 bountying it. This will create enough buzz and motivation for 
 it, but also allow the community spirit to go on.


The "bug of the week" is an awesome idea! +1, we really should 
get something like this going.
Dec 04 2013
prev sibling parent reply John J <john.joyus gmail.com> writes:
On 12/04/2013 07:24 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:

 Also, the benefit to this is we
 can avoid the 10% fee that bountysource has.


I remember reading it's free for open source projects..
Dec 05 2013
parent reply Shammah Chancellor <anonymous coward.com> writes:
On 2013-12-06 07:28:23 +0000, John J said:


 On 12/04/2013 07:24 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:

 Also, the benefit to this is we
 can avoid the 10% fee that bountysource has.
 


 
 I remember reading it's free for open source projects..


When I went to put a bounty on something it tried to charge me 10%.   *shrug*

-Shammah
Dec 06 2013
parent John J <john.joyus gmail.com> writes:
On 12/06/2013 06:41 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:

 On 2013-12-06 07:28:23 +0000, John J said:


 On 12/04/2013 07:24 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:

 Also, the benefit to this is we
 can avoid the 10% fee that bountysource has.


 I remember reading it's free for open source projects..


 When I went to put a bounty on something it tried to charge me 10%.
 *shrug*

 -Shammah


My mistake..
I have checked their FAQ just now, and they do charge 10% :(
Dec 06 2013