Re: Bountysource campaign for gcc-vax

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz%physik.fu-berlin.de@localhost>]

On 5/28/20 1:57 PM, Mouse wrote:
> (2) Not everyone _can_ "just [use] Github or Google" for
> authentication; not everyone who can is willing to risk it to something
> that sets off their "scam!" flags.  And that's even assuming that doing
> so would work as well for them as it (apparently) does for you.

Why would anyone think it's a scam when the largest contributor is IBM?

Plus, we have previously successfully used Bountysource to support the
conversion of the m68k backend:

> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/80706251-m68k-convert-the-backend-to-mode_cc-so-it-can-be-kept-in-future-releases
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=6cebc6cbbb801183090dbb2752aa6b698331a31c
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=45a454883eef8acbdad75c0f376aaf22ec7416ff

>> I fully agree that the performance of the Bountysource website sucks.
>> But it's currently the only crowd-funding website that's known to
>> work well and trustable.
> 
> Based on what I've seen here, it _doesn't_ work very well for some
> people.  But then, it _is_ another instance of the "the Web is a
> suitable interface for anyone to anything" disease....

I don't know, I really don't know what to say here. If you prefer to rant
about Github and Google accounts and poor performance of websites instead
of moving the VAX port forward, then I haven't really anything to add.

Adrian

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