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From: Joel Joonatan Kaartinen <joel.kaartinen@gmail•com>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing over new features
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:54:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311807292.9830.84.camel@mei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T1667dxUj_iRtgbUR0ymBVOaADkGQU_CMF7z7e1-ctRcQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:45 +1000, Gavin Andresen wrote:
>  For example, if somebody has figured out how to solve 90% of some
> tricky bug I don't want them to hesitate to ask for help on the last
> 10% because they're worried "if I describe the progress I've made so
> far somebody might swoop in and steal my bounty...."

Well, the bounty thing can't be automated, so, wouldn't publishing the
work you've done up to then by, for example, mailing this list, pretty
much guarantee someone else couldn't claim they fixed it all by
themselves anymore?

It could, however, end up with some quarrels about how much of the
bounty to give and to whom. Those are not nice things to have.

- Joel





  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27  1:31 Gavin Andresen
2011-07-27  6:40 ` John Smith
2011-07-27 11:14   ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 14:20     ` John Smith
2011-07-27 14:28       ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-27 14:42         ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 14:53           ` John Smith
2011-07-27 16:02             ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-27 16:07         ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-27 16:47           ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-27 17:11           ` John Smith
2011-07-27 17:15           ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-07-27 22:45             ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-27 22:54               ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen [this message]
2011-07-27 23:07               ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-28  6:31                 ` John Smith
2011-07-28  0:15               ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-28 15:37                 ` Caleb James DeLisle
     [not found]       ` <1311811317.72375.YahooMailNeo@web121005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
2011-07-28  0:02         ` [Bitcoin-development] Fw: " Amir Taaki
2011-07-30 11:49 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Mike Hearn
2011-07-30 14:06   ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-30 14:07     ` Matt Corallo
2011-08-03  1:41 ` David Schwartz

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