Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing over new features

From: Matt Corallo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:47:22 +0200

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:07 -0700, Rick Wesson wrote:
> personally, if the software works better (less bugs) then btc will be
> more valuable. offering bounty is orthorginal to finding the right
> technical lead that will hurd the effort.
> 
> 
> put a bounty (salary) on the person to lead the effort, not the bugs
> 
Gavin leads the effort just fine (when he's not on vacation or in
Australia...) but I do agree with paying him, though I'm not sure how
much time he has to spend on development over PR and other
project-building efforts.