Hi Ruben,
On 12.01.2016 21:14, Stefan Tauner wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:37:24 +0100 "R. Diez" rdiezmail-flashrom@yahoo.de wrote:
Would something in the way of bug bounties help?
I can only speak for myself, but it would not motivate me to work more on flashrom simply because motivation is not the problem and it certainly would not make me work less on my day job (unless it would be nearly what I make there which it would not :).
Indeed. Those who work on flashrom are very motivated, and the limiting constraint in our case is the very limited spare time we have. It's not even such a big problem to find someone with enough motivation and spare time to write code. The really hard part is reviewing the code to make sure it is 100% bug-free. People expect flashrom to be 100% reliable even if the hardware itself has quirks or is unreliable. That makes reviews so time-consuming and hard.
That said, we do also appreciate people who regularly test flashrom with their hardware. That helps us to verify that not only the core, but also the programmer drivers and chip drivers are solid. Maybe that would be a way you could contribute.
Regards, Carl-Daniel