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.