Facebook puts more bounties on dlang issues

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/11/14 7:16 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 02:04:38 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> Anyway, just some thoughts.
>
> I agree with most of this. I'm spending some of my free time working on
> some code that helps D development in general but has no bounty on it.

Yah, it's a weird valley to climb out from. The famous original 
experiment on cognitive dissonance 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance) had people paid more 
rate a task more negatively.

My hope is to convince that the message Facebook is conveying here is 
much stronger than the actual sums involved; it's an initiation of 
cooperation and involvement with a community, and it would be awesome to 
respond in kind.

Walter and I chose the bugs and sums involved. The sums were assigned so 
as to not create animosity; if I'd assigned $1000 on some bug and 
someone else has worked or had just done a more difficult and important 
bug, there would be tension. The current sums are nice perks for people 
who'd be interested in pushing D forward anyway. And I'm telling you: 
doing great on bountied bugs is one pretty darn good way to push it forward.

> To work on a bug that has a bounty I'd have to:
> 1) Get up to speed on something that didn't immediately interest me
> 2) NOT do what did interest me
>
> In the SF bay area, $50 is not a lot of money. It's maybe enough to pay
> the bill for dinner + tip for two people, or enough to fill a small
> car's gasoline tank.

Whoa, wait a minute. You live around here? Let's meet! Will send you email.

> These bounties just seem to be bonuses for people who were going to work
> on those bugs anyways.

YES. But that's just the beginning!


Andrei