Total Bounty Accumulated: 24.75 BTC
(last updated, Mar 10, 1:10am EST)
(Donation address on blockchain.info)
User "higuys" has claimed the bounty! More information here.
You can get the first unofficial release of the OSX build from this thread!
Original Message:
The number of users offering bounties for a native OSX package for Armory has reached critical mass. Red Emerald has done a phenomenal job making it available through some brew commands at the terminal, but it's not a long-term solution. Eventually, Armory needs to be accessible to the audience of users that have never seen a terminal. So, I'm announcing a official bounty for anyone who gives me a solid "recipe" for distributing Armory on OSX:
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The following address is owned by Alan Reiner (Core Armory
Developer) and will be used to collect donations to be given
as a bounty for the successful packaging of Armory for OSX.
All donations will be maintained by Alan Reiner, and
distributed at his sole discretion.
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I will hold onto the funds and decide how to distribute it. I will not distribute any to myself, unless there is some reasonable consensus that I should do so (like, I ended up figuring it out myself because no one else did). Otherwise, I will look to this thread for feedback, and then will make the decision how to proceed. Partial credit is possible.
Red Emerald has mentioned that bundling Armory is not easy. py2app didn't work smoothly at all. There's a few awkward dependencies, including bundling PyQt4 in its entirety. Luckily, I know that the Bitcoin-Qt dev team has successfully bundled Qt4 into their package, so their packaging scheme might serve as a good starting point for this task.
@Red Emerald: Of course, I was looking in your direction to be the exalted warrior of this bounty, but there is no obligation.
I don't currently have a developer key for OSX, but I plan to get one eventually so that I can properly sign the OSX packages. I prefer a solution that extends easily to being natively signed, but I guess I'd still be happy with any kind of standalone packaging. It's worth discussing in this thread what can be done to guarantee the solution allows for that (or acknowledge that any correct solution is signable).
Some of you may have seen my previous rant about how I don't like bounties of this form, and much prefer to raise money to pay someone to work on it up front. Part of the justification for that rant is that most projects for which bounties are declared, may require months of work, and do not have a clear definition of success -- especially when inter-project priorities change, feasibility issues justify changing directions, and there is vast disagreement about what is "complete", etc. In this case, I think the task is relative short, and the exit criteria is pretty clear, so there shouldn't be any controversy about it.
I'd also like to see this thread used for collaboration. If there is significant progress made through the collaboration with others in this thread, then I will probably decide to split the bounty. Any splits will be in increments of 10% only. I will not be giving 0.36% to one, 1.83% to another, etc. If people feel like they deserve a small piece for their contribution, they can ask the person who received the bounty to toss them a few bits! Otherwise, your reward for contributing is that you helped make the OSX distributable package possible!
Topic: The official Armory-for-OSX Bounty Thread [CLAIMED -- 25 BTC] - page 7. (Read 10443 times)
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