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Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by imdsm »

sferik wrote: post #98
sferik wrote: post #52

The problem with this funding model is that it encourages fluff pull requests, such as this one: https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/138/files . If there was no financial incentive, I would probably merge it but now I'm questioning the motivations of the committer. If I merge this, it means there will be less money for someone else, who makes a more significant contribution in the future. Personally, I prefer Gittip’s m…

This is getting ridiculous: https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/142/files https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/143/files https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/144/files Shameless.

It was to be expected.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by athaeryn »

sferik wrote: post #98
sferik wrote: post #52

The problem with this funding model is that it encourages fluff pull requests, such as this one: https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/138/files . If there was no financial incentive, I would probably merge it but now I'm questioning the motivations of the committer. If I merge this, it means there will be less money for someone else, who makes a more significant contribution in the future. Personally, I prefer Gittip’s m…

This is getting ridiculous: https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/142/files https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/143/files https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/144/files Shameless.

Hey there, that last commit is mine. I won't be getting a tip for it, I just thought it was a nice change. The first thing I usually look for with a tool like this is how to install it, so I moved the Ruby installation steps down to the bottom so as not to bury what I thought was the important bit in the Installation section. Poorly-timed, if anything.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by joeyh »

arsenische wrote: post #86
joeyh wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be clear, do unredeemed tips stay in or eventually get returned to the balance? BTW, a@ai is a valid and IIRC actually used email address. :)

Thanks for your question. Currently it will just stay as unclaimed balance. But probably it is a good idea to return it back to the project eventually. PS: Thanks for your hint regarding valid email addresses. If your email address is a@ai or something similar - you won't receive tips, sorry.

I've evaluated using tip4commit, and I need either

* The ability to prevent specific email addresses being tipped. * Or the above-mentioned returning unclaimed balance to the project.

In my use case, I make a lot of commits, but I am entirely interested in sending the tips to committers who are not me. If I use tip4commit in its current state, I'll deplete the tip jar quite quickly, and not likely attact more committers.

Running some numbers, I have made 200 commits to git-annex in the past week. If I seed the tip jar with $1000, after a week I calculate I will have been tipped $866 back out of it to myself. After 2 weeks, only $18 will remain in the tip jar!

Hope this can be improved; it would be a pity to have to roll my own, and this otherwise seems exactly what I need.

[quick haskell program used to simulate it:

    main = print $ calc 0 200 500

    calc :: Float -> Int -> Float -> (Float, Float)
    calc totalout 0 tipjar = (totalout, tipjar)
    calc totalout n tipjar =
        let payout = tipjar/100
        in calc (totalout + payout) (n - 1) (tipjar - payout)

]

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by SectioAurea »

slg wrote: post #84
tinco wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was not actually, I was talking about how expensive it is to be a bank. A bank account of course solves all those things, but because of the nature of bitcoin it's rather hard if not impossible to realize the financial system we know as banking using Bitcoin instead of government controlled currencies. So if he was indeed talking about a bank account, then it was a sneer towards Bitcoin itself, and he'd be quite ri…

My criticism was on the idea that so many bitcoin proponents put forward that not having any central controlling or regulatory body is a strength of bitcoin. Even if we ignore all of the macroeconomic issues this might cause, you still lose a lot without any regulations. This particular example is the complete lack of consumer protection in any dispute you encounter when dealing with someone in bitcoin. Instead of tr…

Consumer protection is possible in Bitcoin - it's voluntary on the part of the service provider, and should be demanded by customers.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by andrewgjohnson »

arsenische wrote: post #72
andrewgjohnson wrote: post #25

I like the idea of prepaying bit coins on bounties [presumably tied to an issue/bug report in GitHub] which is what I thought this was at first. As is seems a bit confusing, are all commits treated equally? I'd be peeved if I donated money then saw it get split up among people who did minor clean up, typo fixes, etc. Flip side, I'd be peeved if I spent a bunch of time on a commit then saw the same money go to someone…

You are right. But it is not a salary, it is just a tip. If developer spent time to make even a tiny useful commit - that is good. Probably with time it will become harder to find tiny commits. And donations will probably keep accumulating thus creating higher incentive for more complex commits.

I think your assumptions are incorrect.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by SwellJoe »

sferik wrote: post #98
sferik wrote: post #52

The problem with this funding model is that it encourages fluff pull requests, such as this one: https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/138/files . If there was no financial incentive, I would probably merge it but now I'm questioning the motivations of the committer. If I merge this, it means there will be less money for someone else, who makes a more significant contribution in the future. Personally, I prefer Gittip’s m…

This is getting ridiculous: https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/142/files https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/143/files https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/144/files Shameless.

While I love to get documentation updates, the comma thing and semi-colon thing is ridiculous, and in the comma case is less correct in this context. The doc re-org isn't a bad thing, though.

But, I also suspect that once there are lots of projects that have this feature, and the maintainers establish that they won't merge non-useful commits, like grammar nitpickery (though good grammar has value, and we merge stuff that fixes grammar in our docs, and I wouldn't mind having people get paid for it) this would become less common. And, reputation still matters. I wouldn't want to be "that guy" (and I wouldn't want to hire that guy for substantial work) that takes advantage of a simplistic system to get paid.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by baddox »

sferik wrote: post #52

The problem with this funding model is that it encourages fluff pull requests, such as this one: https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/138/files . If there was no financial incentive, I would probably merge it but now I'm questioning the motivations of the committer. If I merge this, it means there will be less money for someone else, who makes a more significant contribution in the future. Personally, I prefer Gittip’s m…

I have submitted similar pull requests to open source projects with no financial incentive. I don't really see the problem, as long as it's judged to be a "legitimate" correction.
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