On 1/11/14 7:16 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 02:04:38 UTC, Manu wrote:
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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
