LOL.....now this is gonna get interesting tomorrow morning ...<grinning/>heh heh heh.
James Mitchell Software Engineer/Struts Evangelist http://www.open-tools.org > -----Original Message----- > From: David Derry [mailto:dderry@;acm.org] > Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 9:54 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: Re: Bug reward $ > > > Vic, this is a very generous offer, and I'm sure most appreciated. I'm > curious tho' how you came up with the figure of $135. When I want > to come up > with a round figure I think of $100 or $150, maybe $125. I'm > curious how you > arrived at the odd figure of $135. > > That aside, I posted bug #13030 against Validaor. But at the time that I > posted it, I also posted a patch. I noticed this problem because > when I got > into work that morning and started my app, Validator failed because the > Jakarta site was down. But stuts was able to initialize. I recalled seeing > postings on the users list that struts was able to use the DTDs in the jar > file. So I took the opportunity to determine how struts was able > to do this > when Validator didn't. The patch that I submitted was very simple, and was > actually little more than a cut and paste from the struts initialization > code. Although, as I said, I appreciate and respect your offer, I > would feel > ...... oh I don't know..............cheesy if I were to accept your offer. > There are any number of folks who have worked hard, and long > hours I'm sure, > to make struts a success who deserve much more. The little that I have > contributed has already paid me back more than I have actually > contributed, > merely from the knowledge that I gained making this patch. Also, > it made me > feel REALLY GOOD to be able to contribute that little bit. > > Another thing, and again I am not criticizing, your offer is extremely > generous; but in this case at least a patch was submitted at the time that > the bug was reported. Your reward, I feel, would be more > effective if it was > offered only for reported bugs that don't already have a patch submitted. > That would provide insentive for someone to fix the problem. There really > isn't much insentive in the case where a patch has already been submitted. > > So I would like to thank you for your offer, but it just doesn't > seem right > to me that someome (like myself) could fix one little bug and get paid for > it when others have devoted so much time and effort for nothing > more than th > e satifaction that they get, and the thanks of those whose jobs they have > made easier. I personally have benefited far more than I have contributed. > And I have learned a great deal from lurking on the mailing lists. That is > more than payment enough for me. I just wish that I was able to contribute > more. > > I want to express my thanks, as well as my respect and > admiration, for every > one who has worked so hard; who have sacrificed so much time and > effort, to > make struts the great product that it is. I have learned a great deal from > you guys. > > Dave Derry > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "V. Cekvenich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 8:03 PM > Subject: Bug reward $ > > > > I will send via pay pal $135 to each person that fixes at least one bug > > and e-mails me that they did + a link to bugzila, up to the first 6 real > > bugs, which is about 10% of bugs. (maybe a few more companies help focus > > funds on the release). I know it’s not much, but support can start > > someplace, I think a lot of companies would like to be the “Covalent” of > > Struts as would baseBeans … at least if you are just sitting home an > > have half a day to kill. > > There are about 46 bugs for Struts 1.1. I do not need a release of 1.1 > > but I would like to sponsor some fixes, related to it, so don’t think it > > to cheesy. > > > > NOTE: you do not need to be a committer for this, you must submit the > > diff to bugzilla, but I will not have time to test, so I wish you good > > karma that you do test the fix. (A committer can then… commit should the > > code be acceptable) > > Any simple text DTD or doco fixes don’t count, and also I reserve the > > right not to pay for any reason ( I did sponsor prior some work by at > > least several others) > > I probably won’t list the people that do e-mail me that they did a > > patch, and do not have time to answer more questions. > > > > BeanUtils: 12728, 13596 > > > > DBCP: 12047, 12400, 12733, 12869, 13155 > > > > Digester: 12534 > > > > Pool: 12841, 13649, 13705 > > > > Validator: 13030, 13472, 13539 > > +8787 > > > > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRM ED&bug_sta tus=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_seve rity=Blocker&bug_severity=Critical&bug_severity=Major&bug_severity=Normal&bu g_severity=Minor&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&em ailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&vot es=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&product=Struts&version=1.1+Beta +1&version=1.1+Beta+2&version=Nightly+Build&version=Unknown&short_desc=&shor t_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file _loc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&fiel d0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as +last+time > > .V > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
