I don’t have time to build all the things I’d like to build, so I’m offering bounties on the following work.
Details
- Payment will be made via PayPal when the criteria is met. If you would prefer another mechanism, feel free to suggest it, but no guarantees.
- Amounts are in Australian dollars.
- I will not pay out a bounty after the expiration date.
- I may choose to extend the expiration date.
- How can I trust you’ll pay me? I like to think that I’m a trustworthy person. However, if you would like to discuss a partial payment prior to starting work please get in touch.
- You have to be the primary contributor to claim the bounty. If someone else does all the work and you just nudge it over the line the other person is the intended recipient.
- If in doubt contact me.
Cairo user-font With Colour Bitmap Always Comes Out Black
The Evince PDF viewer uses Poppler to render PDFs, which in turn uses Cairo. Emoji embedded in a PDF using a PDF Type 3 font always come out as a black silhouette instead of the colour image when viewed in Evince do to a limitation in Cairo’s user-font functionality.
Issues:
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/389,
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/729
Criteria: Implement support for colour user-fonts in Cairo, resulting in
the Cairo issue being closed as completed.
Language: C
Amount: AU$500
Expires: 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
Emoji Reactions in Fractal
Fractal is a Matrix client written in Rust using GTK.
Issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/fractal/-/issues/530
Criteria: Implement emoji reactions in Fractal to the satisfaction of the
maintainers, resulting in the issue being closed as completed.
Language: Rust
Amount: AU$500
Expires: 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
Update Mattermost Server to Support Emoji Added After Unicode 9.0
Mattermost’s emoji picker is stuck on emoji from Unicode 9. We’re now up to Unicode 13 and many emoji added in the last few years are missing. This bounty pertains only to the work required in the Mattermost server, not the desktop and mobile apps.
Issue: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-13676
Criteria: Update the list of emoji in the Mattermost server to Unicode
13.0, resulting in the issue being closed as completed.
Language: Go
Amount: AU$200
Expires: 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z