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Bountysource

JR Jason Robinson Public Seen by 216

New discussion relating to Bountysource, and "funding" bug fixing and feature implementation via this channel.

https://bountysource.com/teams/diaspora

Continuation of this discussion.

DU

Deleted account Sun 9 Nov 2014 5:03PM

No, because the money would not go to the organisation, it goes to the developer.

This is what I was saying : the risk of to much devs making too much bad quality PR to get the bounty. ;)

JR

Jason Robinson Sun 9 Nov 2014 6:12PM

@augier

Couldn’t there be a risk that the organization become flooded by bad quality PR all to get money ?

I'd call that a positive problem :)

And I'd also call it very very unlikely.

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goob Sun 9 Nov 2014 6:19PM

Well, if PRs are poor quality they won't get merged, so no bounty...

I see what you mean, it might mean more admin work for the Github admins in dealing with low-quality PRs, but on the other hand if it gets more people trying to code for D* some of them might improve over time and become valuable contributors...

It would be interesting to hear from the admins - @jonnehass @florianstaudacher @jasonrobinson - what they think about this scenario (potentially causing them some more work).

JR

Jason Robinson Sun 9 Nov 2014 6:48PM

@goob already gave my opinion, unless you meant to tag someone else ;)

Positive problem - and very unlikely to happen. The effect of money is overrated in the open source world imho. Most people have a day job and their interest in open source comes from other things than money. The sums that are likely to accumulate in these kind of things are not going to be high enough for someone who is not interested in open source to start coding just because of the money.

JH

Jonne Haß Sun 9 Nov 2014 6:59PM

What Jason said.

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Flaburgan Sun 9 Nov 2014 7:15PM

Framasoft (which manages the framasphere.org pod) are interested about improving diaspora* to make it easier to administrate. They can put some money, and they also offered to have internships for the foundation if we don't have an official structure to manage them.

JR

Jason Robinson Sun 9 Nov 2014 7:19PM

Awesome :)

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goob Sun 9 Nov 2014 8:38PM

Thanks both, I thought that would be your position, but I wanted to check directly!

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Flaburgan Wed 12 Nov 2014 1:39PM

I just posted a $5 bounty on an issue to test how bounty source works. If someone who is not member of the team (== not Jason nor me) wants to help us testing, he can go on the issue on bounty source and says he is working on it, then submit a patch. That would allow us to test how the validation process works.

JR

Jason Robinson Wed 12 Nov 2014 1:49PM

Also, bountysource integration - shall we activate it? A few messages up, my opinion:

I’d personally vote for the body text and the label. The issue title is a bit … too much maybe :P

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