Linus's annual earnings are in the region of $10m, his net worth is ballpark $150m, and we're meant to be surprised he hasn't collected $136 in Github tips? Really?<p>Perhaps Tip4Commit should make it easier for developers to nominate a charity for their unclaimed tips to go to? Or just automatically donate anything unclaimed after six months.
Why are we having opinions about how other people spend their time and money? People have been contributing to open source projects without any compensation for a lot longer than any of these on-line "tip" services have existed.<p>Why are we having opinions about how other people spend their time and money? People have been contributing to open source projects without any compensation for a lot longer than any of these on-line "tip" services have existed.<p>edit: Five minutes on Tip4Commit reveals:<p>Meaningful, feature-enhancing and bug-fixing commits to the linux kernel are earning ~$0.02 each<p>* 0.00002458 ɃTC <a href="https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3405d230b374b6923878b21b8d708d7db1f734ef" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3405d230b374b692387...</a><p>* 0.00002559 ɃTC <a href="https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fb5bb60cd004a00c1d11db680a37942ecdedb1c5" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fb5bb60cd004a00c1d1...</a><p>Meanwhile, storing a google drive mirror inside of a git repo and committing things that shouldn't even be in source control is generating $10+ per commit<p>* 0.01648708 BTC <a href="https://github.com/super3/Peercoin.net/commit/3921ceaa64ce394f0860b08b7cb783e13f3272e9" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/super3/Peercoin.net/commit/3921ceaa64ce39...</a><p>* 0.01632221 BTC <a href="https://github.com/super3/Peercoin.net/commit/574d0f43389ee089a82779eba3d9142b4de61a96" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/super3/Peercoin.net/commit/574d0f43389ee0...</a><p>Maybe Tip4Commit is just not a well designed system for allocating reward and value? As a developer working on something you care about, this kind of comparison could potentially be a turn-off from participating in the tip community.
Other core Rust devs and I sometimes receive Bitcoin tips through this program, but as we're employed full time to work on Rust we're uncomfortable accepting them. I'd rather people donate to charity, as the article suggests.
In all fairness $136 isn't really serious amount of money to be collected and it can be a little bit trickier for someone who isn't used to Bitcoin. I wouldn't bother to collect it as well.
Why is it fair for Linus to get tips for Linux kernel commits? My understanding is that he rarely (if ever) writes code for the kernel anymore. He just takes code from his lieutenants and merges it. Maybe he doesn't feel right taking the money for other people's work.
>Tip4Commit recently made a change to revert tips that remain unclaimed for 30 days back to the project. So far, according to Gasparyan, about 20% of the value of all tips have reverted back to their projects.<p>That might annoy me, if I had sent any tips, or if I had received any. Not that I am opposed to supporting T4C but I think 90 days would be more reasonable, and I also liked some other HN user's suggestion that people be given the option to elect a charity or other project to receive funds.
While the reasons people mentioned here are all extremely valid, I found another reason:<p>To sign in to Tip4Commit (which appears to be required to collect your money), I have to grant Tip4Commit read/write access to what GitHub calls my "Personal user data". Now I suspect if they change my name or something it wouldn't be the end of the world, I could just revert it, but if you hover over the little ? icon it reveals that it also gives them read/write access to <i>YOUR SSH KEYS</i>. Now that right there is probably why larger devs don't do this.<p>Someone, please please please tell me I missed something...
I am not surprised.<p>I don't always check my reddit messages, because they're generally not that important/interesting. The other day I thankfully decided to take a peek as the 21 day window on a bitcointip was about to close.<p>I have been using reddit for years. I know about the bitcointip project. But unless/until it really smacks you in the face that you received money via some obscure means of communication that you never really used in the first place, I would expect more tips to go unclaimed in the future.