[Interest] Bounties?

Alexander Görtz nylocx at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 11:56:12 CET 2015


Hi,

> This demonstrates why an official integration into Jira would be essential:
> pledges distributed on Github and bounty source without most people noticing
> them; the only way to manage the process is to add comments on Jira and
> Github; issues seems hard to find and/or to synchronize.

If I get it right there is a bountysource firefox plugin that lets you place 
bounties for every bug in every well known bugtracker out there. So you can 
place a bounty on every bug in jira by just clicking the thumb up botton 
supplied by the firefox plugin.

Am Donnerstag, 19. März 2015, 08:50:53 schrieb Bernhard:
> Yes they  seem to scrape in some way. Also issues can be viewed now (this
> was broken some days ago). I picked some random issues and tried to search
> for them but I couldn't find them in their system. So the page isn't fully
> synchronized.
> 
> This demonstrates why an official integration into Jira would be essential:
> pledges distributed on Github and bounty source without most people noticing
> them; the only way to manage the process is to add comments on Jira and
> Github; issues seems hard to find and/or to synchronize.
> This will never work well for a lot of issues and a lot of pledges as long
> as there is no seamless interface between bounty source (or some other
> service) and Qt's Jira. After all there seems no one to be interested from
> Qt side to implement the interface due to doubts about its success.
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: interest-bounces+private=bernhard-lindner.de at qt-project.org
> > [mailto:interest-bounces+private=bernhard-lindner.de at qt-project.org] Im
> > Auftrag von jhihn at gmx.com
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. März 2015 02:50
> > An: Christoph Feck; interest at qt-project.org
> > Betreff: Re: [Interest] Bounties?
> > 
> > There seems to be  a site that can  scrape bugs from other systems.  I
> 
> never
> 
> > made this  issue but it has me as creating it in their system
> > 
> > https://www.bountysource.com/issues/9706136-qpdfwriter-does-not-> > 
output-clickable-links
> > 
> > -----Original message-----
> > Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 15:44:54
> > From: "Christoph Feck" <cfeck at kde.org>
> > To: interest at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Interest] Bounties?
> > 
> > On Saturday 14 March 2015 00:20:27 Bo Thorsen wrote:
> > > When you need to have a bug fixed, pay someone to do it.
> > 
> > I guess those willing to pay have a problem finding someone having time to
> > work on it. Why not simply have a page in the Qt wiki with contact
> 
> addresses
> 
> > of developers that offer "pay-per-bug" support, instead of "pay-per-year"
> > support? KDAB was mentioned, but I guess there are many more.
> > 
> > --
> > Christoph Feck
> > https://kdepepo.wordpress.com/
> > KDE Quality Team
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