Sponsored bug fixes during bug auction at T3BOARD09

 

On this year's TYPO3 Snowboard Tour in Laax again a bug auction was held in which people could bid for their favourite bugs to be solved. It was a fun event - combined with the task of the attendant developers to actually solve the bugs in question right afterwards.

One of the benefits of bidding high during the auction was to be named in this very news article, so here is a list of the companies sponsoring the bugs as well as the bugs which were fixed:

Sponsor	Drinks	Issue
AOE media	150	FORGE-2957	Errors on exceptions should be logged to system log
jweiland.net	105	FORGE-2851	TextValidator is insecure
Typoheads	100	7984	support html-tags in crop function of stdWrap
HDNET	80	10777	Add the new versioning icon to t3skin
Digiparden	70	10776	Clearing cache_treelist after inserting page on root level does not work
network.publishing	65	FORGE-2816	Implement redirect to action
d.k.d Internet Service GmbH	60	10734	Admin Panel should display number of INT objects used on a page
d.k.d Internet Service GmbH	60	9046	Inter domain linking with typolinkEnableLinksAcrossDomains doesn't work for domain record on root page
wildside	55	9703	Integrate EXT: ingmar_admpanelwrap
Heuing: TYPO3, Flex und Cross Media Publishing	50	FORGE-2832	Implement a (string) length validator
snowflake productions	50	10768	Small rendering/css bug on FE with Text with image
Cross Content Media	25	5957	Wrong comment in t3lib_extmgm.php
networkteam	American Auction*	10025	ImageMagick generates larger than necessary files

* American Auction: Style of auction, in which bidders raise by a certain amount which they have to pay regardless of the success; the last bidder wins.

Thanks to all of you!

By the way, the currency of bids was "drinks at the bar", which had a fixed exchange rate of one drink equaling 5 Swiss Francs and could only be spent on the bar at the same night. The total amount of 1130 drinks was split by a ratio of 70% for drinks on the bar at the same night and 30% is going to be used to pay for a core team dinner at the next core team meeting.

Ten out of the total 13 bug fixes were committed later the same night (most of them were no-brainers), one committed about a week later, and another two are still pending in the core list (but we'll promise to fix them until the T3DD09 in May).

Special thanks goes to Peter Niederlag, who moderated the show as Auction Master, and to the developers Patrick, Jochen, Ingo, Olly, Steffen (who attended virtually), Robert, Andi, Karsten, Rupert, Michael, Tobi and Ingmar.

There's also a nice podcast about the bug auction that gives you an impression of what the event was like!

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