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Shlomi Fish (918)
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Friday November 24, 2006
02:14 AM
RFC: T-Shirts for Code
Since the Web-CPAN T-shirts giveaway is not proving to be very popular among hackers, I've had the idea of expanding its scope. Why not give an Ozy and Millie T-shirt to the first 4 hackers who resolve a long-standing CPAN Request Tracker bug, not necessarily a web-cpan.berlios.de one?
Some ground rules I can think of:
- The bug has to be last-standing. It should have been opened for at least a month.
- It has to be approved by the module's maintainer or otherwise real.
- The patch should include a regression testcase, and a fix to the code.
- The module should be fairly popular and useful instead of a very obscure and unused module.
- The author should accept the patch into his mainline repository before the T-Shirt can be ordered.
I don't mind other people joining in with their own offers for the T-shirts (or other gifts) pool, but I'm sticking with O&M T-Shirts.
I've seen more than one CPAN modules with tens of open bugs in their Request Tracker queue, and I think offering T-shirts may be a good way to encourage people to get involved. So what do you all think? Is that a good idea?
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hmm, no (Score:1)
people will do it for fun and passion and not expecting anything back. hmm. on the other hand, a pack of beers is more appealing to me