----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Amir Taaki To: John Smith Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing over new features I already tried the bounties route- made a forum thread offering $4000 worth of bounties and it got very few  responses before dropping off the page. Also, http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=4761.0 and http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=4543.0 In the end I came to the conclusion that the only was is to bring in projects and pay people to work fulltime on Bitcoin under an organisation. ________________________________ From: John Smith To: Joel Joonatan Kaartinen Cc: Bitcoin Dev Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Seeking advice: Encouraging bug-fixing over new features On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Joel Joonatan Kaartinen wrote: 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. > Good idea. I'm not sure if the github bug tracker supports extension attributes, but it'd be a great place to add it. Also, people can let know that they're already working on a feature using a comment, to prevent double work. The biggest problem will be organizational, in getting the BTC together for bounties; only a high profile member such as Gavin will have enough trust to ask for support. Or maybe there's something left in the faucet? :-) Unrelated: what also might help is publishing a roadmap. Plan a few "bug fix only" releases before scheduling addition of new features. It's also helpful for people that wonder that direction the project is going in... JS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input?  Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online.  Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development