Re: Abandoned patch countdown 20111003

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 10:16:01AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> "address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > If you could leave this up for another week, that'll give me time to
> > collect the bounty on it.
> 
> Since a reward loses its meaning if you need to invest weeks of
> bartering, running after people, sending out payment reminders and so
> on, my take on this is that we should either turn this into an official
> thing where an independent party does the vetting and likely gets the
> money in advance in escrow, or scrap it altogether.
> 
> As a system of honor, it does not work and thus is rather a disincentive
> for contributors than otherwise.

Agreed, but it'll be a few weeks before we discuss this in GOP.
I'm not willing to hold back the patch management work to address
this now.

Sorry,
- Graham