Sponsored bug fixes during bug auction at T3BOARD08

By: Ingmar Schlecht

On this year's TYPO3 Snowboard Tour in Laax 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	Bid amount	Sponsored bugs
snowflake productions	195	#444: TYPO3 5.0: "func_get_args()" is not allowed to be an argument #7986: Vertical aligned Icons in List-Module #7854: Docheader: moving function menu to the left in second row
WMDB	130	#7476: Link in about module opens in the TYPO3 backend frameset #4575: Changes in alternative page language does not clear cache
AOE media TYPO3 Blog	110	#4768: errors from getStorageSiterootPids() in class.tslib_fe.php #7991: Workspace preview is not aware of domain-records
d.k.d.	101	#1537: Shortcut icon syntax incorrect/incomplete
Wildside A/S	100	#6896: TCA eval on TEXT field does not work
die digiparden	40	#7496: Exclude for header_position, header_link
ICSurselva AG	35	#8009: Wrong TS-Code because appendString cannot handle multiline strings

Thanks to all of you!

By the way, the currency of bids was DrinkDollars (DD), which had a fixed exchange rate of one DD equaling 5 Swiss francs and could only be spent on the bar at the same night. As the total amount of 711 DD was too high to be spent by just the developers, they decided to invest it into a free bar for everyone that night.

Ten out of the total eleven bug fixes were committed later the same night (most of them were no-brainers) and the patch for the remaining one was developed the day after.

Special thanks goes to Lars Houmark, who moderated the show as Auction Master, and to the developers Patrick, Thomas, Peter, Ingo, Kasper, Sebastian, Robert, Michael and Ingmar.

Because of the throughout positive feedback, it is very likely that this event will be done again at other events, e.g. the upcoming T3CON 2008 in Berlin.

By the way: The TYPO3 bugtracker provides a simple way for sponsoring bugs. Give it a try!

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