the article links back to the hacker news submission, billing it as a "list of bugs." I don't get it.
Seemed an easy place to have the voting happen.
We need someone to get the ball rolling!
It's now fixed, but that is the kind of thing we're looking for.
I'm not a developer - I'm a business guy primarily - so I'm unlikely to be the best person to pick out things that typically hold up developers.
As a sidenote: I always am a bit skeptical when i see links to a HN thread propagated in posts, primarily because it may bring too many new people here in particular if the post gets picked up by major news outlets. Nothing wrong with new users, but I think anyone interested in HN related topics learns of this site sooner or later anyway. The rate of submissions/changes on the front page has increased a lot during the last year and I'm a bit afraid where that will lead to (unless PG starts updating / trying a couple of things with HN, such as thresholds, categories, etc).
You're right - in many ways $1k is tiny, but I was hoping that there would be a bunch of annoying bugs / bugs in boring areas that cause people headaches that (other) people could fix in ~1 hour or so.
If others wanted to chip money into the pot, I'd happily give it a shot at administrating it for a bit and see if it gets traction. So far, we aren't seeing bugs submitted that would cost > $1k to fix either - if we do, perhaps we can persuade some people to chip in to help meet the cost...?
Could be enough to set up a website with accounts and a system that gives you "karma" for each bug you remove or a feature you add. Amount of karma depending on the bug/feature and maybe an additional voting system for users to push their favourite feature or most annoying bug.
Having a lot of karma on such a site may even be interesting for your resume when you apply for a job.
It would have been nice if he could have backed something like, a StackOverflow for opensource bugs/feature requests with payment integration.
Didnt hear back though!