Build Gaddr with us
Help make Gaddr better
Report a problem or suggest an improvement in Gaddr CoCreate at cocreate.gaddr.com, take a paid assignment on Gaddr Jobs, or send code through Gaddr Code. Below: how each one works, where Gaddr stands on open source, how rewards are paid and what Gaddr Chain does.
Ways to take part
Four ways to make Gaddr better
Suggest an improvement
Missing a feature, or a better way to do something? Suggest it in Gaddr CoCreate.
Suggest an improvementTake a paid assignment
Paid assignments are posted on Gaddr Jobs, where you can register your interest.
See paid assignmentsSend code
Identified contributors with a signed agreement open pull requests on Gaddr Code, our own Git forge.
Open Gaddr CodeOpen source
Is Gaddr open source? No. Here is what that means for you.
Gaddr is built on open-source software and depends on it every day. Gaddr's own code is proprietary. We say so plainly, because a contribution page is exactly where people expect to hear the opposite.
- What we build on
- Libraries, frameworks and tools under open licences are part of every Gaddr product. Each one stays under its own licence, and nothing in Gaddr's terms reduces the rights that licence gives you.
- The notice travels with every copy
- When a component's licence asks for its copyright notice and licence text, they go out with every copy we ship. A rebrand never removes them.
- What stays closed
- Gaddr's own code is licensed, never sold, and is not published. Having a copy, or access to a repository, gives no right to use it.
- Why it is closed
- An open licence cannot be taken back from copies already handed out. That makes it a decision for the owner of the company, not a default, and today the answer is closed.
Code
Contributing code
We accept code only from identified people who have signed our contributor agreement. Here is the whole path, from the agreement to the record on Gaddr Chain.
Sign the agreement
Under the contributor agreement you assign the rights to what you contribute, so the code stays under one licence. Ask for it through the contact page.
Open a pull request on Gaddr Code
Gaddr Code at code.gaddr.com is our own Git forge, on hardware we own. Every change arrives there as a pull request.
Another person approves it
A pull request counts when someone other than its author merges it or approves it in a review. A pull request you merge yourself is recorded, and it never counts toward a reward.
It is counted, by name or not
Approved work appears on Gaddr's public list of contributors, as counts only and never with a repository name. Link your Gaddr Code login to your Gaddr account to be named, or stay under a stable pseudonym.
See the public list of contributorsIt is attested on Gaddr Chain
Once a day every contributor's counts are sealed into one fingerprint, a Merkle root, and written to Gaddr Chain. A root is never overwritten, and you can prove your own counts are in it without saying who you are.
Anonymity covers the public list and the attestation. Git commits still carry the author's name for people who can read the repository.
Rewards
Rewards are paid in money, never in crypto
Two kinds of reward exist. Paid assignments pay today. Rewards per approved pull request have fixed rules and are not active.
- Paid assignments
- Assignments with a price are posted on Gaddr Jobs. You register your interest, and the terms are in the listing. This is the reward that pays today.
- Per approved pull request
- A funder sets a rate, a daily cap and a budget. Only pull requests approved by someone else count, and each payment is checked against the root on Gaddr Chain right before it is made. Nothing is paid this way today.
- Straight to your own account
- A reward is a card payment from the funder directly to your own connected account. Gaddr never holds the money in between.
- Never a token
- Gaddr never pays anyone in a crypto-asset, and contributing earns no token of any kind. Gaddr Chain proves what was counted. Money moves the ordinary way.
Crypto
Gaddr Chain and Gaddr Gold: what runs and what does not
Gaddr runs its own blockchain, Gaddr Chain. The test network is live. The main network is not, and Gaddr Gold is not on sale.
- The test network runs
- Four authority nodes produce a block every six seconds and finalise it together. Chain ID 74748. Anyone can read it in the explorer, which needs no script to work.
- No main network yet
- Before there is one, an audit by someone outside the company and a registered chain ID are required. Neither is done.
- Gaddr Gold is not gold
- Gaddr Gold (GGLD) is the platform currency Gaddr Chain is built for. It is not backed by gold: the name is a tier name, like a gold card. Nothing is sold and nothing is promised, and that is the decision, not a pause.
- Test units are worth nothing
- Developers can take 100 tGGLD a day from the test faucet. tGGLD has its own ticker on purpose and can never be exchanged for anything.
- What the chain does for contributors
- It keeps the daily root of contribution counts, so the record of who was credited with what cannot be quietly rewritten afterwards.
Nothing on this page is an offer of a crypto-asset or investment advice.
Questions
What people ask before they contribute
- Do I get tokens for contributing?
- No. Contributions earn no token of any kind, and Gaddr never pays out in a crypto-asset.
- Can I contribute anonymously?
- Yes. Unless you link your Gaddr Code login to your Gaddr account and choose to be named, you are counted under a stable pseudonym on the public list and in every attestation.
- Can I read Gaddr's source code?
- No. Gaddr's code is proprietary and not published. A contributor with a signed agreement gets access to what the work needs, for that work only.
- Do I need to write code?
- No. A report or a suggestion in Gaddr CoCreate needs no code at all, and it is where the development plan is shaped.
- Who owns what I contribute?
- Code is accepted only under the contributor agreement, which assigns the rights to the company behind Gaddr so the code stays under one licence.