[randywaterhouse]

I, for one, applaud the initiative, for which the bitcointalk forum announcement (by this post's submitter) exists here [0].

It's interesting to think of a system to support development of open source software, providing monetary compensation in addition to that feel-good feeling. The other day I was thinking if we could almost have a standardized commit message for developers seeking tips, something like <public bitcoin address><clearsignature of address with developers pgp key>, so that one could do this on a direct basis (and with certainty that their funds reach the dev).

This is NOT to say that I don't trust tip4commit, not at all. Think of the previous paragraph as an aside, a thought on how to tip in a way that guarantees all tips go to developers. If arsenische were less trustworthy there might be a greater argument, but I think people familiar with bitcointalk will know he's cool.

It's great to see an easy, less-painful, automatic way to have this done than simply looking up dev's addresses on an individualized basis (tedious if you like lots of projects).

Cool stuff.

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=315802

[arsenische]

Thanks for kind words!

I like your idea of putting developers' bitcoin address into commit message. I totally agree with you that direct tips are instant and reliable, they don't require trust to any third party.

However most developers probably don't even have a Bitcoin address, we hope to change that :)