Bountysource activity

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/13/14, 11:38 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Nick recently did a patch for this one:
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> 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
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> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1326911-dtoh-utility-convert-d-files-to-c-header-files
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> and it pretty well works now waiting on the OK to merge:
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> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/39

Thanks.

> 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.

What would make the amounts interesting?

Andrei