Open Source Bounties

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= bidding money conditional on the completion of defined Open Source Projects


Description

Nat:

"I am still in favor of the creation of a general bounty system for open source projects. The idea is to allow anyone to act on their "I'd pay $50 if someone fixed this" impulses. SourceXchange and others tried to do this years ago, but I think they were too early, and to date no one has done this well.

I think a general bounty system should start with a simple, clean interface wherein:


1. Anyone can create a new bounty, and describe it with HTML, text, images, etc.


2. People can search for bounties that already exist, and "pile" onto them by pledging additional money.


3. There is an easy mechanism for people to associate a bounty with a bug in any of the popular bugzillas. So, there'd be a way to create a freeform bounty, and a way to create a bug bounty bound to a bug in bugzilla.mozilla.org/bugzilla.gnome.org/bugzilla.kde.org, etc.


I had been thinking that we might want to create a link from the bug to the bounty, but I think this actually would seem like spam to the people who are using bugzilla.


Instead, we could have the bounty website periodically poll the bugs for which there are bounties and alert anyone who has pledged on that bounty if the bug status has changed.


4. There is a mechanism for people to claim bounties, and for the original bounty creator to verify that the claim is valid." (http://nat.org/2005/january/#bountysystem)


Examples

OpenID bounties, http://openid.net/foundation/bounty/ Gnome bounties, http://swik.net/GNOME/GNOME+Bounties MoinMoin bounties, http://moinmo.in/MoinBounties OS2 bounties, http://www.os2world.com/bounties