Re: poll: start writing offers

+1

Should these be created on bountysource?

Arne Babenhauserheide:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> The poll concluded a few weeks back and exceeded its hopstolive.¹ We
> should adhere to it and spend the money. I think we should start by
> writing offers in Freenet forums to pay people to do the highest ranking
> tasks and move to later tasks when the initial tasks are done.
> 
> 
> These are the two top tasks (they came out on top in every evaluation):
> 
> 
> (1) Title: *Darknet invitation bundles*
>     Description: Adding a single use node reference to an installer
>       executable. People could hand out the installer executable to
>       their friends to allow them to connect by Darknet instantly. See      
>       - https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=166#c11290
>       (an overview of the requirements and options for invites) and
>       - https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=1342
>       ("create a bundle installer")
>     Estimated cost: 1 to 1.125 weeks (~ 1000$ to 1250$)
> 
> (2) Title: *Fix the installers*
>     Description: Fix windows installers first, then add packages for
>       linux. See
>       - https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=1276 and
>       - https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=1275 and
>       - https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=5892 and
>       linked issues.
>     Estimated cost: 0.5 to 2 weeks (~ 500$ to 2000$)
> 
> 
> Can we put up offers for these, using the cost estimates as payment?
> Are the descriptions here sufficient?
> 
> 
> As success condition for payment I’d use:
> 
> (1) A pull-request is accepted which adds a single-click option in the
>     web interface which creates a bundle with installers for Windows,
>     MacOS and *nix. These installers must be preconfigured to
>     automatically connect via darknet to the node on which the bundle
>     was created.
> (2) Pull-requests are accepted which identify problems in the
>     windows-installer and resolve them. This includes porting the
>     wrapper to a 64bit JVM.
> 
> Did I miss something required to address the tasks?
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> Arne
> 
> ¹: Ping sanity.
> 
> PS: Finishing the first iteration of the WoT would normally be among
>     these two (with estimated 2.8 to 4.1 weeks ~ 2800$ to 4100$), but xor
>     pulled back his votes on that, so I won’t name it here until the
>     issue is resolved. That need not block the two tasks named here.
> 
> 
> 
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