On 2 February 2018 at 11:21, Joakim via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 09:26:51 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> On 31 January 2018 at 09:43, Joakim via Digitalmars-d >> <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm sure you can find much better D devs to contribute such work by >>> posting bounties on the D or ldc bountysource pages: >>> >>> https://www.bountysource.com/teams/d >>> https://www.bountysource.com/teams/ldc-developers >>> >> >> I was surprised to see a gdc bounty page. I was even more surprised that >> the one notable bounty is an issue that's either blocked by Walter, or >> waiting on someone to implement array op templates in druntume/object.d. :-) > > > Heh, the lead gdc dev doesn't know that gdc bounties exist, not sure I could > have made my case for their being hidden any better. :) > > On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 09:30:08 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> I'm reminded of airlines who have a "Priority" or "Privileged" queuing >> system at the gate. If you didn't want to wait in line to board, then you >> should have paid up. >> >> Not sure if any parallels ring with you here. :-) > > > Any system that requires payment can be superficially compared to any other, > but the real salient point here is the discrepancy: to even get on the > flight, you have to pay for a ticket, whereas he paid nothing for the > open-source sections of a mixed codebase. So, he's more like a guy who > shows up at the gate without a ticket _and_ barges into the Priority queue, > which is a sure way to get thrown out of the airport altogether. :D >
The up-front cost to get yourself on the plane is irrelevant, you could even think of it as a baseline cost that everyone pays to get themselves there (OSS software has a cost, even though package is free, someone's got to spend time on your money building/setting it up). Maybe it's just the British culture that I have firmly ingrained inside. Ranting about queuing just comes more naturally, as its what we do best. To undermine the queuing system is to undermine the national way of life. :-) Granted, there's not many great things that can be said about a first-come, first-serve system - and in OSS projects, the meritocratic communities do give sense to that we operate in such a fashion when it comes to ownership of the code base, or fixing long-standing issues. i.e: I arrived first as a contributor, therefore my opinion against outranks your opinion for (this is a irrationally negative example, however). > And I have no problem with priority queues, baggage fees, etc., as the > reason they charge for those is to _lower_ the ticket price for the cheapest > consumer, a concept called price discrimination (and before I get the usual > nonsense about how that's illegal, or it should be, it isn't and it > shouldn't): > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination > > So I pay less for my cheap flights, while others who want to lug a ton of > suitcases or get through the line faster pay more, which is only fair. > Fair enough. Me, I am frankly more disturbed by a money-talks culture that gives preferential treatment to the highest bidder over the hoi polloi. :-)