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!