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Re:An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake by olalonde on Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:00AM (#5962255)
Would be cool if you could submit an automated test and your bounty was automatically awarded as soon as the test passes.
Re:An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake by jdotjdot on Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:41AM (#5962354)
A little risky though, if your test is imperfect. People may work to outsmart the tests rather than actually solve the bugs.
Re:An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake by olalonde on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:15AM (#5962434)
Yes, I was going to add a note on that but then I realized this problem (people cheating) would exist anyways as long as there isn't a trusted third party to handle conflicts. I don't think this would be a common issue though as most open source developers are not driven by the money and I don't think there would be enough money to attract scammers (would someone really get into the trouble of writing an open source software hoping to one day cheat people out of their money when they submit bug bounties?).