diff --git a/bounty.md b/bounty.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a94c0d --- /dev/null +++ b/bounty.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +# Pull Request Bounty for Politehnica Students in Summer 2015 + +ProxySQL is an open-source, high-performance proxy for MySQL and compatible forks. +Its main values are: +* high performance +* high availability (since it's a proxy, whenever it's down, access to the database is down as well) +* flexibility (allow the user to customize the behaviour of the proxy as much possible) + +How will you use these values? Make sure you take them into consideration with +each coding decision that you make. + +# How is this going to work? + +The value of the prize is $150, and it will be awarded for the best pull +request submitted from your own fork. The pull requests should be sumitted until +Friday, July 31st 2015, midnight in Bucharest time. In order to choose something +to work on, ask questions on the repo issues or ping us via e-mail asking for +guidance. + +The pull requests will be evaluated, subjectively, by @renecannao and @aismail, +by the following criteria: +* choice of problem (which of the issues did you choose, how important it is) +* technical solution (how well written is it, how well documented, how efficient) + +Any undergraduate student from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of +Automatic Control and Computers is allowed to participate. + +We will publish the result on Monday, July 13th 2015 and will contact the +winner to send the prize :) + +# Notes + +The idea of this bounty came from @aismail's presentation at Politehnica's +[Open Source Summer School](https://open-source.cs.pub.ro/summer-school/2014/wiki/home) +from June 30th 2015 named "How to go to Vama Veche with Open Source". \ No newline at end of file