Autobounty?

[John Colvin]

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.