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From: Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing over new features
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:07:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311808059.2294.55.camel@Desktop666> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T1667dxUj_iRtgbUR0ymBVOaADkGQU_CMF7z7e1-ctRcQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:45 +1000, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> "A couple of bitcoins to fix a bug" sounds to me like nothing but
> trouble for whoever is in charge of awarding the bounties, but maybe
> I'm just anti-bounty because spending 2 or 3 hours and getting $30
> worth of bitcoins for fixing a bug wouldn't motivate me.

I do think it would motivate some people to fix a bug or two, though I
would say it wouldn't encourage long-term contributors, just a bunch of
hacked together patches which "fix" a bug.

> RE: road-map and bug-fix-only-releases:  Great ideas.
I know jgarzik hates the idea of branching for releases, but quite a few
projects do that, and it seems to work fairly well.  I would support the
idea of starting with 0.4 and branching for bugfixes to an 0.4 branch,
then adding new features to a head branch to be eventually called 0.5.
> 
> 
> RE: paid full-time project lead:  I arranged to get paid to work on
> bitcoin full-time before I left for Australia; more details when I get
> back week-after-next.
Awesome.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27  1:31 [Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing over new features Gavin Andresen
2011-07-27  6:40 ` John Smith
2011-07-27 11:14   ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 14:20     ` John Smith
2011-07-27 14:28       ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-27 14:42         ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 14:53           ` John Smith
2011-07-27 16:02             ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-27 16:07         ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-27 16:47           ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-27 17:11           ` John Smith
2011-07-27 17:15           ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 22:45             ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-27 22:54               ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 23:07               ` Matt Corallo [this message]
2011-07-28  6:31                 ` John Smith
2011-07-28  0:15               ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-28 15:37                 ` Caleb James DeLisle
     [not found]       ` <1311811317.72375.YahooMailNeo@web121005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
2011-07-28  0:02         ` [Bitcoin-development] Fw: " Amir Taaki
2011-07-30 11:49 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Mike Hearn
2011-07-30 14:06   ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-30 14:07     ` Matt Corallo
2011-08-03  1:41 ` David Schwartz

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