Bountysource activity

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:38:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Nick recently did a patch for this one:
>
> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1327154-dmd-never-inlines-functions-that-could-throw+
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> we've had a lot of movement on this one
>
> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1326911-dtoh-utility-convert-d-files-to-c-header-files
>
> and it pretty well works now waiting on the OK to merge:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/39
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>
>
> Generally though, I don't think the bounties are going to 
> change much behavior; the only issues that will be addressed 
> are the ones that we were going to do anyway, since the dollar 
> amount is just too small to change a business decision.
>
> Take multiple alias this for example. I've looked at the dmd 
> source for that before and judged it would be a pretty big job 
> - probably a week devoted to it, if not more. The bounty is 
> $100.... so that's, what, $2/hour? There's very little 
> practical difference between that and doing it just because I 
> felt like it; financially, I'd be better off flipping burgers. 
> No real change to the incentive.

The difference is though that people are working on problems, 
hard problems even, with the compiler already for free. I for one 
wouldn't mind getting a $100 for fixing something I already have 
an interest in fixing. In other words, I don't think they do any 
harm.