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On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:31:53PM -0500, Steve Peters wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've asked for advice on this matter. No news until the weekend.
> >
> > It's surprised me that the denizens of #p5p are already sufficiently amused
> > by the whole idea that several have openly started digging into and closing
> > bugs, despite the realisation that they could build up a strategic patch
> > reserve. :-)
> >
>
> Not too worry. There is strategic patch reserve on an old hard-drive
> somewhere in my basement with test scripts of a few hundred bugs ;-)
Ruh-roh!
At the proposed $25 a pop for a TODO test, that could be worth $5000 if there
are 200 still open. Double that if each can be combined with a valid git
bisect. That's without actually fixing any of the bugs.
Gosh. That means that that hard drive is actually worth something. You'd
better keep it safe.
There's a revised draft for the plan which ends
Remember, we consider running out of money to be a success. We have no
feel for how long it will take to exhaust the money.
Might be quite fast.
Nicholas Clark
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