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At 10:39 PM +0100 5/30/09, Nicholas Clark wrote: >It's almost 6 months since booking.com kindly donated $50,000 to TPF > > to aid in the further development and maintenance of the Perl programming > language in general, and Perl 5.10 in particular. > > http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4039070.html > http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/12/bookingcom_makes_a_major_contr.html > > >So far there is no published plan to spend it, as best I can tell from out >here the entire amount remains safely in the bank, and at it stands there >will be no change in the next 6 months either. This aids neither development >nor maintenance. > >Also, vienna.pm still has around $35,000 surplus from YAPC::EU 2007 to spend >on "advancements of Perl": http://use.perl.org/~domm/journal/39013 > > >So, without consulting either group, or anyone with commit rights, here's an >impertinent suggestion on how to try to spend other people's money. It has 3 >virtues: > >Laziness: It requires nearly no up front effort to organise >Impatience: It tries to spend as much money as rapidly as possible >Hubris: It ties to both get bugs fixed, and draw new people in. > > >And the crazy scheme is: Offer bug bounties on every open Perl 5 bug* > >http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue%3D%27perl5%27AND(Status%3D%27open%27ORStatus%3D%27new%27) > > >Anyone can claim: > > $25 for correctly identifying* the change that introduced a bug > or demonstrating that the bug has been present since 5.000 > or explaining why it is not a bug, and should be closed > > $25 for a committed TODO test* > or for identifying the existing TODO test > [may well be cheaper to write a new test. > I don't have a problem with this] > or for identifying which bug this is a duplicate of, and merging it > >[bugs in dual life modules can't earn any more, at this point*] > > $50 for Perl code that is committed to blead that fixes the bug > $100 for Bourn shell, Makefile or other code that is committed to blead that > fixes the bug > $150 for XS or C code that is committed to blead that fixes the bug > > $200 bonus for fixing bugs present in perl 5.000 > $400 bonus for fixing bugs present in perl 1.000 > > >Hence $100 for completely resolving a Pure perl bug, or $200 for completely >resolving a bug in C code. > >However, the minimum payout is $500, equivalent to > > 20 git bisect runs > or 10 bisect + TODO test > or 10 bisect and de-duplicate > or 5 bisect + fix pure perl bugs > or 2.5 bisect + fix C bugs FWIW, I like it! At 1:17 PM +0100 5/31/09, Nicholas Clark wrote: >It's actually "How can I spend the money as quickly as possible, with the >least effort, and then be given more money to repeat the trick?" >So the revised scale of virtues is > >Laziness: It requires nearly no up front effort to organise >Impatience: It tries to spend as much money as rapidly as possible >Hubris: People will actually give *more* money to keep it going Count Dijkmat in! LizThread Previous | Thread Next