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Topic: [ANN] Tip4Commit.com - support opensource projects, contribute and earn bitcoins (Read 26574 times)

legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
We are being criticized for unsolicited email spam.

Just to clear the things out: we do not spam and never intended to. Perhaps in the early days of the project we sent out disturbing notifications about microdonations, but that was fixed long ago, just see the algorithm here: https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/blob/master/app/models/tip.rb#L115-L126

We send emails only to public email addresses of contributors who received tips for their contribution and only when ALL of the following conditions are met:

  • contributor's balance is above the threshold
  • contributor didn't specify his or her withdrawal address
  • contributor didn't unsubscribe
  • contributor wasn't notified during last 30 days -- btw if contributor doesn't specify bitcoin address during 30 days, tips will be returned to donation pool anyway
  • project maintainer didn't disable notification for contributors of his or her project

Email recipient can explicitly unsubscribe or just ignore the message.

If there is any victim of our spam please create a ticket at github with facts. So far most of the criticism comes from people who never got a satoshi a single email from us!

Update: just placed this explanation here so that everybody could comment.

Update2: temporary disabled all email notifications, discussing fundamental issues: https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/157
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
I think we're seeing some people submitting lots of tiny, trivial commits -- perhaps because they get more of the tipping pie.

I'm not sure how to combat that bad incentive....

Do you believe this activity is related to tip4commit?

Perhaps we could reward for 1 commit per day only, would it fix the problem?

The idea would be to hook Tip4Commit not into the version control but into the CI and to have the maintainer define rules. Down side is that a CI is just one extra thing that is no high on the list of many projects.

Interesting idea, could reward contributors based on their score... But sounds complicated to set up and probably will severely reduce number of projects.


Wanted to bump your ANN, and let you know that the team at GlobalBoost thinks you guys ROCK!!
We are really impressed, and we are working with possibly getting a tip4commit using BSTY & BST Smiley

Thanks for kind words, but not everybody likes it, so think twice before doing it.

I was wondering if your Anonymous Ads is also open source?

No, it's not, sorry.
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 252
Hi!
Wanted to bump your ANN, and let you know that the team at GlobalBoost thinks you guys ROCK!!
We are really impressed, and we are working with possibly getting a tip4commit using BSTY & BST Smiley
If any contractors are interested in working on the project, please PM me!  Grin

I was wondering if your Anonymous Ads is also open source? We have been looking for a good advertising platform like this. Or, maybe we can work something out. Let me know.

Keep up the good work guys!

https://BST.GlobalBoo.st
Team





As services go out of service, here is my question how you will handle going out of service? Will you do an instawallet and keep the money for you? Will the maintainers get the money to continue the payouts at their own discretion? Will you get "hacked"? How much is in hot wallets? How much will you cover from your private money? Who are you?

Thanks for important questions. We are the developers of Anonymous Ads.

Frankly speaking I don't know yet how we handle the possible situation of a hack or service shutdown. I can only promise that we won't profit from such situation (though in bitcoin world promises are worthless). We are not bitcoin millionaires and can't guarantee to cover the losses with our private money. So, yes, this is a major risk and a weak point of the project.

This service started as a 48-hour project for Rails Rumble, so (unlike a-ads) all the funds are stored in a blockchain.info wallet. If the service gets traction, we will surely need to change it.
newbie
Activity: 33
Merit: 0
I think that the easiest way is not to accept these dust commits and ask the author to squash them into one commit.
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1114
WalletScrutiny.com
I think we're seeing some people submitting lots of tiny, trivial commits -- perhaps because they get more of the tipping pie.

I'm not sure how to combat that bad incentive....

Small commits are not always bad. Sure, fixing the code formatting one line at a time, putting each in a separate commit is improving the code but wasting much time of those reviewing it. Incentivizing to group code formatting fixes with functional changes is also bad as "fixed formatting" and "fixed bug" should be two commits.

Key should be to find a metric a computer understands, that is not too far from the goal of having a great product.

Do you know the Continous Integration Game? They put some serious thoughts on how to measure code in an automated way that is way better than just by commit (badbad) or by LOC (lines of code changed in a commit would only incentivize many commits if the developer edited the same lines multiple times) which would be the next best thing.

The idea would be to hook Tip4Commit not into the version control but into the CI and to have the maintainer define rules. Down side is that a CI is just one extra thing that is no high on the list of many projects.
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 2301
Chief Scientist
I think we're seeing some people submitting lots of tiny, trivial commits -- perhaps because they get more of the tipping pie.

I'm not sure how to combat that bad incentive....
sr. member
Activity: 306
Merit: 250
Hi all i really like the idea behind tip4commit.
Maybe someone can help me to setup my own tip4commit on my deb system for Gamerscoins ?
I Just need too know how to run tip4commit the rest i can do alone i think.

Open Reward 25000 GMC for a good deb tutorial.
Thanks again for your awnsome work on tip4commit.

kindly regards
Dr.Bob

EDIT : Found a way to start it Wink

full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
so it is only for projects hosted on github
newbie
Activity: 33
Merit: 0
Any idea why the deposit for namecoin/Convergence hasn't shown up yet?

I've created the deposit manually.
newbie
Activity: 33
Merit: 0
Agreed, I think it would be more intuitive if the merge date is used rather than the commit date.  If there's disagreement there from anyone, maybe make it user-configurable?

Any idea why the deposit for namecoin/Convergence hasn't shown up yet?

I have found the bug. We don't handle the situation with many deposits in a single transaction. I will try to fix it as soon as possible.
member
Activity: 88
Merit: 76
I donated 0.1 BTC to namecoin/nmcontrol and another 0.1 BTC to namecoin/Convergence on Jun 2.  (I'm a contributor to both.)  The latter has yet to show up, and while the former is visible in the donations, the button to choose the payout amount is nowhere to be found (commits have been made), so the funds appear stuck.  Any idea what's wrong?  Here's the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/23077940fe8cf1f077f6047e635f78b62157005767094f79ed6344fdbc5240ab

Tip4commit tips only commits that were created (not merged) after the first deposit. http://tip4commit.com/projects/762 This project has one deposit, but it still doesn't have commits to pay tips for.

Probably, we need to reconsider this workflow.

Agreed, I think it would be more intuitive if the merge date is used rather than the commit date.  If there's disagreement there from anyone, maybe make it user-configurable?

Any idea why the deposit for namecoin/Convergence hasn't shown up yet?
newbie
Activity: 33
Merit: 0
I donated 0.1 BTC to namecoin/nmcontrol and another 0.1 BTC to namecoin/Convergence on Jun 2.  (I'm a contributor to both.)  The latter has yet to show up, and while the former is visible in the donations, the button to choose the payout amount is nowhere to be found (commits have been made), so the funds appear stuck.  Any idea what's wrong?  Here's the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/23077940fe8cf1f077f6047e635f78b62157005767094f79ed6344fdbc5240ab

Tip4commit tips only commits that were created (not merged) after the first deposit. http://tip4commit.com/projects/762 This project has one deposit, but it still doesn't have commits to pay tips for.

Probably, we need to reconsider this workflow.
member
Activity: 88
Merit: 76
I donated 0.1 BTC to namecoin/nmcontrol and another 0.1 BTC to namecoin/Convergence on Jun 2.  (I'm a contributor to both.)  The latter has yet to show up, and while the former is visible in the donations, the button to choose the payout amount is nowhere to be found (commits have been made), so the funds appear stuck.  Any idea what's wrong?  Here's the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/23077940fe8cf1f077f6047e635f78b62157005767094f79ed6344fdbc5240ab
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
Tip4Commit fees reduced to 1%.

Also project maintainers can select the tip size for each commit now.
newbie
Activity: 49
Merit: 0
So I have my email address set to private on GitHub, yet when I signed into tip4commit.com it grabbed my real, private email address. Since all my commits are made using the users.noreply.github.com email (since I set my real email address to private), I can't claim any of the tips I've received.

Reported the issue here: https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/66
newbie
Activity: 33
Merit: 0
Starting today, part of the money is stored in our offline wallets. Over 25 btc are waiting for your commits!
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
For a recipient of a tip, it would be useful to see for which commits to which projects donation(s) where given. I understand that this information is inaccessible now.

Thanks! Created a ticket: https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/21

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Unrelated: are you aware of https://github.com/WhisperSystems/BitHub?

Yes, we are, thanks Smiley

Btw, thanks to anonymous donor, we have ~3 btc at Tip4Commit, so anybody can contribute and earn!
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
For a recipient of a tip, it would be useful to see for which commits to which projects donation(s) where given. I understand that this information is inaccessible now.

Unrelated: are you aware of https://github.com/WhisperSystems/BitHub?

Thanks!
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1012
If somebody put a donation on the tip4commit repo what would happen?

Hopefully new developers would join the project and submit their pull request with new features, bug fixes and other improvements of tip4commit.

http://tip4commit.com/projects/307
legendary
Activity: 3038
Merit: 1032
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