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Karelia Software Offers Bounties for WebKit Bug Fixes

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005 at 6:45 pm

Karelia Software is working on an exciting new app that uses WebKit: Sandvox. This web authoring tool is shaping up to be rather spiffy and elegant. But they need your help. There’s a couple of bugs in WebKit which are impeding their progress and that they’d really like fixed soon. So they are generously offering bounties for fixes. Dan Wood writes:

Unlike most other toolkits from Apple, WebKit is open-source, which means that any engineer can fix the bugs, not just folks at Apple. And, in an ideal world, we would have a staff of dedicated programmers assigned to fixing the WebKit bugs that we need fixed to make Sandvox work as smoothly as possible.

But we are a small company, and programming the depths of WebKit is not our forté. So we came up with an idea: offer a tangible “thank you” to whomever can fix the bugs we need fixed. A win-win situation: not only will Sandvox benefit, but so will any app that uses WebKit.

So here is our offer: for each bug from our list (below) that is fixed (via a patch attached to the report in the WebKit Bugzilla), to our satisfaction, we will pay a “fix thank you” of US$100. If and when a submitted patch is committed to the official WebKit repository, we will pay that person a “committed patch thank you” of US$150.

Check out the list and see if you can help them out.

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