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.
I suspect one of those two states cover the majority of people who can but don't fix many D bugs today.
So while the bounty might be a nice bonus for those who were already planning to do it anyway, it is unlikely to lead to any *new* bug fixes; the rate of bug closure before and after probably hasn't changed (I'm sure we could measure this too to confirm my gut feeling).
