[RFC] [avr] Toolchain Integration for Testsuite Execution (avr cc0 to mode_cc0 conversion)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

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

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