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Re: Bounties for bugfixes?

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:08:37 +0300 (IDT)

This mail prompted me to look at the issue again... this time I managed
to put together a patch that, at least, causes the symptoms to go away
(i.e., the test case in the issue passes, and yields

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r6 | daniel | 2010-06-21 20:53:01 +0300 (Mon, 21 Jun 2010)
Changed paths:
   A /H
   A /H/B
   A /H/B/child-of-X
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.)

I'll run 'make check' and post the patch to dev@ for review later.

Daniel

Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 at 16:33 +0200:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:49:25PM +0200, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I looked at the website already but could not find anything helpful. Is
> > there a way to "speed up" a certain bugfix by throwing money at it?
> > I'm talking about that svnsync bug I recently discovered
> > (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3641) which is a
> > showstopper for us since cvs2svn happens to create a commit svnsync
> > which fails to sync later.
> >
> > I found CollabNet, WanDisco and elego support which all seem to be based
> > on yearly fees. But we only want to get this particular issue fixed.
> >
> > Is there somebody who, given a certain amount of money, will look into a
> > particular issue and fix it?
>
> Hi Tino,
>
> your request and offer for support is appreciated.
>
> I've marked this on my todo list but I won't get to it within
> the next two weeks at least. I don't expect payment -- I will try
> to look at this as part of my work at elego as time permits.
> But I hope someone else will find time to look into this sooner,
> so that you can get a fix quicker.
>
> There is no formal bounty program to speed things up, unfortunately.
> But please consider donating to the Apache Software Foundation
> once the bug is fixed, if you cannot find a company or developer
> to make a private arrangement with.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
>
Received on 2010-06-21 20:18:15 CEST

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