Bounty Increase on Issue #1325927

[Don via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 26 June 2014 at 21:20:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 June 2014 at 17:52:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> wrote:
>> On 6/26/2014 7:02 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
>>> I've increased the bounty on this bug.   Fast CTFE is very 
>>> important.
>>>
>>> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325927-ctfe-copy-on-write-is-slow-and-causes-huge-memory-usage
>>>
>>
>> This is great news, and I'm sure very much appreciated by all.
>>
>> I can't help being a little concerned over issue ownership, 
>> though. My understanding is that Don's already done a large 
>> amount of work towards this issue. I wonder if that could 
>> actually be holding people back from contributing to the 
>> issue, for fear of taking whole pot unfairly (ie, swooping in 
>> and just doing the last little bit, or being perceived as 
>> attempting that), or fear of stirring up disagreement over 
>> money?
>
> Don's a senior developer at a company that just got bought for 
> $200 million.  I doubt he's stressing over a $400 bounty, ;) 
> especially if it takes some work off his plate.

Yes, of course I'm not interested in bounties. But note that that 
issue is not really a "bug", it's a project.
I put hundreds of hours of work into this, to get to the point 
where we are now - fixing the compiler structure to the point 
where a JIT is possible. That work was funded by an insolvency 
payout :). Daniel Murphy has done some work on it, as well.

I doubt bounties are effective as a motivation for this kind of 
thing.