I would like to announce a bounty of 150 PPC for getting the Windows installer to function properly for Peerunity and Peershares. It is likely that both repositories have the same problem, so one solution will work for both. Details about what is needed are here:
The primary problem we are having with Peerunity right now is that the Windows Installer is not working. I posted a 150 PPC bounty 6 days ago for this but no one has contacted me about fixing it. Therefore, I would like to increase the bounty to 200 PPC and 0.1 BTC as a referral fee to whoever makes the person that receives the bounty aware of it. Perhaps the best candidate would be someone who has made the Windows Installer work for another altcoin. The process is quite similar. So, I will suggest the community contact people involved in the development of altcoins to see if they are interested in and able to collect the bounty.
If this doesn’t work within a few days perhaps we will consider using elance.com or a similar service.
Edit: Additional information about what needs to be done can be found here:
I wanted to send out a big thanks to whoever donated 1100 PPC to Peerunity development several days ago through Peer4commit. That buys a lot of development.
Why do we need a Windows installer? I like software that you can just unpack, change some config files, and it works. It’s called green software, no? Isn’t Peercoin green
[quote=“Jordan Lee, post:144, topic:2203”]The primary problem we are having with Peerunity right now is that the Windows Installer is not working. I posted a 150 PPC bounty 6 days ago for this but no one has contacted me about fixing it. Therefore, I would like to increase the bounty to 200 PPC and 0.1 BTC as a referral fee to whoever makes the person that receives the bounty aware of it. Perhaps the best candidate would be someone who has made the Windows Installer work for another altcoin. The process is quite similar. So, I will suggest the community contact people involved in the development of altcoins to see if they are interested in and able to collect the bounty.
If this doesn’t work within a few days perhaps we will consider using elance.com or a similar service.
Edit: Additional information about what needs to be done can be found here:
I’d like to send a big thanks out to glv who made a pull request (https://github.com/Peerunity/Peerunity/pull/48) to fix our Windows installer problems in Peerunity. The bounty was for fixing the problem in Peerunity and Peershares, though it looks like glv is trying to give cjf2 an opportunity to make the Peershares pull request according to the conversation on the pull request at the link above.
pennybreaker will be verifying the solution and as soon as any concerns are resolved a partial payout of the 200 PPC bounty will be released. If a pull request is made against Peershares, the full 200 PPC will be paid out.
I didn’t have any message from cfj2 to know whether he/she wanted to do it or not, so I just made a pull request for the Peershares gitian descriptors allowing to build the Windows binaries and the installers (32bit and 64bit).
[quote=“Jordan Lee, post:148, topic:2203”]I’d like to send a big thanks out to glv who made a pull request (https://github.com/Peerunity/Peerunity/pull/48) to fix our Windows installer problems in Peerunity. The bounty was for fixing the problem in Peerunity and Peershares, though it looks like glv is trying to give cjf2 an opportunity to make the Peershares pull request according to the conversation on the pull request at the link above.
pennybreaker will be verifying the solution and as soon as any concerns are resolved a partial payout of the 200 PPC bounty will be released. If a pull request is made against Peershares, the full 200 PPC will be paid out.[/quote]
I didn’t have any message from cfj2 to know whether he/she wanted to do it or not, so I just made a pull request for the Peershares gitian descriptors allowing to build the Windows binaries and the installers (32bit and 64bit).[/quote]
What about the other guy who responded, chrisfranko? Did anyone respond to him? Maybe he is interested.
As cjf2’s email address is chrisjfranko@xxxxx.xxx, I think it’s the same person, such a coincidence being very unlikely…[/quote]
Agree, I asked for it as he came through r/crypto4job. If you got the job and the reward, I will remove the advertisement on r/crypto4job.
pennybreaker is verifying the Windows installer is working and SirCoinGame is verifying a fix of the bug where the stake balance doesn’t reliably update unless you restart. Once we get those two things verified, we will merge them into master and pennybreaker will produce another set of test builds. SirCoinGame has been testing Peerunity in recent days and will be posting about what he has found very soon. It is clear the release is progressing toward being stable.
SirCoinGame has posted the results of his testing here:
I just fixed the one rebranding bug he found. Once pennybreaker confirms the Windows installer fix glv posted works we will merge that into master. Once SirCoinGame verifies pull request #44 (bug fix for incorrectly displayed stake) we will merge that into master as well. Once those merges are complete, we will perform some basic regression testing and if that doesn’t uncover any problems we will have a release candidate.
I’d like to add a new splash screen for Peerunity before that happens. I’ll try to spend a couple minutes this afternoon working on a graphic to replace the “brown wallet” one from the Peercoin core wallet.
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