[julia-users] Re: Crowdsourced Julia development

2015-09-26 Thread Marcio Sales
This can easily work by just labeling an issue or feature request with the 
bounty's link in one project's git. That site is really cool.


[julia-users] Re: Crowdsourced Julia development

2015-09-25 Thread Jonathan Malmaud
$5 to the first person to take transposes 
seriously 
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1333116-taking-vector-transposes-seriously/backers

On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 10:45:30 AM UTC-4, Tom Breloff wrote:
>
> Moving the discussion from the matlab thread...
>
> The idea was brought up about being able to contribute money to package 
> development to motivate developers... a quick search brought up this: 
> https://www.bountysource.com/
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this?  Are there other similar 
> options?  Are there users out there that would pledge money for specific 
> bug fixes and functionality right now?  
>


Re: [julia-users] Re: Crowdsourced Julia development

2015-09-25 Thread Tero Frondelius
I don't know, if I made the right conclusion, but it looks like this guy 
made 27 k$ in a month: https://www.bountysource.com/people/34958-arigo 

On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 7:55:16 PM UTC+3, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> Is anyone aware of success stories from open source bounties? Or bad 
> stories for that matter?
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Uwe Fechner  > wrote:
>
>> I just created a bounty for implementing a low latency garbage collector:
>>
>> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/5020251-implement-a-low-latency-incremental-garbage-collector
>>
>> Uwe
>>
>>
>> Am Freitag, 25. September 2015 17:31:11 UTC+2 schrieb Jonathan Malmaud:
>>>
>>> $5 to the first person to take transposes seriously 
>>> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1333116-taking-vector-transposes-seriously/backers
>>>
>>> On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 10:45:30 AM UTC-4, Tom Breloff wrote:

 Moving the discussion from the matlab thread...

 The idea was brought up about being able to contribute money to package 
 development to motivate developers... a quick search brought up this: 
 https://www.bountysource.com/

 Does anyone have any experience with this?  Are there other similar 
 options?  Are there users out there that would pledge money for specific 
 bug fixes and functionality right now?  

>>>
>

[julia-users] Re: Crowdsourced Julia development

2015-09-25 Thread Uwe Fechner
I just created a bounty for implementing a low latency garbage collector:
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/5020251-implement-a-low-latency-incremental-garbage-collector

Uwe

Am Freitag, 25. September 2015 17:31:11 UTC+2 schrieb Jonathan Malmaud:
>
> $5 to the first person to take transposes seriously 
> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1333116-taking-vector-transposes-seriously/backers
>
> On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 10:45:30 AM UTC-4, Tom Breloff wrote:
>>
>> Moving the discussion from the matlab thread...
>>
>> The idea was brought up about being able to contribute money to package 
>> development to motivate developers... a quick search brought up this: 
>> https://www.bountysource.com/
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this?  Are there other similar 
>> options?  Are there users out there that would pledge money for specific 
>> bug fixes and functionality right now?  
>>
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: Crowdsourced Julia development

2015-09-25 Thread Stefan Karpinski
Is anyone aware of success stories from open source bounties? Or bad
stories for that matter?

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Uwe Fechner 
wrote:

> I just created a bounty for implementing a low latency garbage collector:
>
> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/5020251-implement-a-low-latency-incremental-garbage-collector
>
> Uwe
>
>
> Am Freitag, 25. September 2015 17:31:11 UTC+2 schrieb Jonathan Malmaud:
>>
>> $5 to the first person to take transposes seriously
>> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1333116-taking-vector-transposes-seriously/backers
>>
>> On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 10:45:30 AM UTC-4, Tom Breloff wrote:
>>>
>>> Moving the discussion from the matlab thread...
>>>
>>> The idea was brought up about being able to contribute money to package
>>> development to motivate developers... a quick search brought up this:
>>> https://www.bountysource.com/
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any experience with this?  Are there other similar
>>> options?  Are there users out there that would pledge money for specific
>>> bug fixes and functionality right now?
>>>
>>