Hello! >> I'd ask the original author, but it seems he's busy with other work, so to >> avoid delays... > > Please try to ask him first? That is always nice, but you all also need > to figure out what to do with the bounty.
Going through the messages in this thread, my suggestion would be to pick Senthil's conversion as it apparently has no regressions as reported by Dimitar [1]. Since the largest share of the bounty was donated by Atmel/Microchip, there might be a conflict of interest as Senthil works for them from what I have seen on his homepage. If claiming the bounty should be a problem in this case, I would suggest that Senthil donates the money for a good cause or maybe puts the money on a different Bountysource campaign to either benefit GCC (I'm sure there are enough other areas that could see some love) itself or another open source project. Either way, the money is awarded to the individual who did the heavy lifting and it's important that we keep it that way. Otherwise, there is a risk that future potential contributors will refrain from picking up the task from such a Bountysource campaign if there is a reduced chance for them to claim such a bounty. After all, the whole idea of Bountysource is to delegate tasks that the community is interested to being worked on to skilled developers who are willing to spend a lot of their free time and to give them a small financial reward in return. Normally, buying developer time for such extensive tasks is way more expensive, so the community should appreciate anyone willing to do such work for a comparably little amount of money. For what it's worth, there are certainly more tasks coming in the future, so I'd recommend everyone interested in claiming a bounty regularly checking Bountysource.com (Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with them, I just chose them because the seem to be the most popular site) or similar campaign sites for such offers. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2020-December/561489.html -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
