Bountysource activity

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 3/13/2014 9:23 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 01:05:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Still, that's more than the $0/hr for most of the D contributions
>> we're happy to do, so I'm not complaining.
>
> Aye, but it doesn't push you over the line from "I'd like to do this but
> am too busy with other work" or "meh i don't care enough" to actually
> doing it.
>

Depends how well one's day job is going ;) And I do think it *can* be 
enough to tip the scales if someone is tempted but not entirely comitted 
- the final straw to say "Ok, you know what, I think I *will* take a 
shot at that after all".

But I think you may be right that it isn't exactly going to get a bunch 
of people clamoring over "Ooooh!! I'm gonna go fix that one!!" As far as 
what *would* to that though, I really don't know (I mean, beyond 
obviously silly answers like "Three million!").

FWIW, I think there *are* dangers in going too high with the bounties 
(and I can't believe I just said that ;) ). Don't want to end up with 
contention over who gets a bounty (esp if people had already made 
significant contributions towards something, and then a bounty gets 
posted and someone else swoops in for the last little bit). Also don't 
want to discourage people from bothering with non-bounty issues.