Developer Yakov Till, AKA Lepsus, is largely credited with the fix (for “95% of the engineering work”). They get the monetary reward and heartfelt thanks of those who pledged to support the bug bounty.
We conclude by pondering whether this kind of private bug bounty, organized to eliminate computing annoyances, could set a trend.
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ezst036 Crowdfunding a bug fix. This is genuinely cool. Some might say that's not a lot of money and not worth the dev time. That so completely misses the point. Reply
Joomsy Interesting to see Alderon contributing to this. They're one of the only Unreal game devs that I know of that ship out native Linux builds of their games, so it's nice to see that they're legitimately interested in seeing issues fixed on Linux. Some might say that's not a lot of money and not worth the dev time. That so completely misses the point. Especially when you consider that most Linux dev work is done by volunteers. $2k is rather substantial for these starving artists. Reply
The Beav Should check out the Rimworld mod market discord; you pay people to make the mods you want… And it's busy as hell. It's the only comparative thing I can think of. Admin said: Reply
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