I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR

Posted by bobblywobbles on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:55PM
from the self-post dept.

I didn't see anything in the guidelines that prevent me from posting this, so please if it's not allowed - I'll take this post down.

There's a bug in Electron that I need fixed in order to implement a template I'm building. There is an open issue (https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/21437) but I do not have the time to solve this problem as the framework is large and I'm working on many things at once.

I'll send you $100 to find and create a PR for this fix - whether that's a gift card or donation to your Github repo via sponsoring we'll figure that out!

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by Fiaxhs on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:09AM (#21998730)

You'd probably want to take a look at https://gitpay.me/ or https://www.bountysource.com/

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by bobblywobbles on Saturday January 11, 2020 @04:39PM (#22022507)

Both of the platforms seem pretty inactive, but I can try - thanks!

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by code-is-code on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:06AM (#21998710)

For 100$ I will boot my computer.

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by quickthrower2 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @01:41AM (#21999034)

Yeah this should be a $1000 job but by the same token why should OP foot the entire bill. Ah! open source!

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by bobblywobbles on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:50PM (#22007988)

That I cannot afford, sadly!

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by kup0 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:53AM (#22001643)

Every time I see stuff like this I'm reminded that I really should find some way to dive deeper into programming/etc in general.

I would like to be knowledgeable enough to solve something like this but have no idea how to approach wrapping my mind around it. I can poke at it here or there (I see there are many places in the framework where ipcrenderer is referenced..) but I always hit a brick wall.

My knowledge level has always stalled at being able to look at the code and have a general idea of what is happening but not deep enough to contribute. Not sure how to make that leap.

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by bobblywobbles on Saturday January 11, 2020 @04:43PM (#22022534)

Just wade in and around the code a bit, think about it. It always takes some time in a new codebase. We aren't all perfect, and it definitely doesn't come instantly to us as we all learn at our own pace!

I've made some progress on the issue if you'd like to take a peak at it now.

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by mrits on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:14AM (#22001828)

Spending 15 years writing code for 8 hours a day did the trick for me

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by allendoerfer on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:50PM (#22003551)

Can confirm this method also worked for me. Additionally it helps if you spend the rest of the day reading about it on HN.

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by kup0 on Friday January 10, 2020 @12:32PM (#22012770)

Hrm. Maybe I should just stick to my day job instead.

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by bobblywobbles on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:12PM (#22023083)

Bumped up the bounty to $230! https://www.bountysource.com/issues/85135915-ipcrenderer-doe...

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Re:I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR by thrwaway69 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:09AM (#21998731)

Try gitcoin, git bounty and other similar places.

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