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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing
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Perhaps even add a way for anyone add to the bounty attached to a bug on
the bug tracker? Also, a listing page for bugs with their bounties might
be nice too.
- Joel
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 06:40 +0000, John Smith wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Gavin Andresen
> <gavinandresen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anybody have advice on how to encourage more bug-fixing and
> testing of existing functionality instead of
> yet-more-features?
>
> Make a list of bugs. Offer BTC bounties for fixing each one according
> to how serious/difficult it is. They don't have to be high, just a few
> BTC. It'll also help people get interested in the project and
> *current* source base (instead of wanting to implement Yet Another
> Incomplete Client from scratch).
>
> Or we could do the same as the mozilla/chrome projects, offer bounties
> for finding new security holes and serious bugs.
>
> A policy like "that spiffy new feature you want won't be considered
> until you've helped close some open bugs" won't work. This is open
> source, people can just make their own fork with the spiffy new
> feature without fixing any bugs.
>
> JS
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