Ever consider an annual kickstarter as a false positive or issue drive
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As Daniel has done a few cppcheck kickstarters in the past. I was wondering if he has ever thought about doing an annual kickstarter/fundraiser event. Were you would price out an issue you would like to work on and put a stretch goal of an additional amout you will complete other issues for. As an example you find some issue in the back log that you would like to work on that cost in the 250 to 400 Euro range to fix. Then say for every additional 100 Euros you will fix one issue. Just looking at the gitlab change log I have a feeling even if you got a ton of donations it wouldn't compare to the amount of issues you and the other developers do on a yearly basis. I think doing it annually the same time every year is a good way to help build the cppcheck community around the funding drive.
I have thought about it for sure. After the Kickstarter campaigns I asked those who made donations for feedback about what cppcheck work they would like to fund.
And "false positives" scored very low. Additional features was much more interesting. :-(
If CppcheckPremium will generate some proper income, I want to use some of that for fixing false positives. For instance, a full time developer that works on fixing false positives and stuff would be extremely nice and well worth the money in that scenario imho. So do not hesitate to tell friends/managers about CppcheckPremium :-).
Last edit: Daniel Marjamäki 2021-11-28
While I can't afford to fund a full time developer I would be willing to donate 275 Euros for cash prizes for the developers that fix the most false positives in cppcheck in 2022. 1st place 150 Euros, 2nd place 75 Euros, 3rd place 50 Euros. I would be willing to donate an additional 100 Euros to you for keeping track of the score. While these cash prices are in no way able to compensate the cppcheck developers for their time spent fixing false positives in cppcheck. It is just my small way of saying thank you.
That is very generous. 👍
Alright let's publish that somehow so the team will see it.
I'm not sure how much kickstarter cut is, but my all in amount is 375 Euros. It would have the added bones of allowing other people to contribute to the prize pool as well as it would be a way of getting the word out. Thoughts?