Comment on Platform for Crowd Sourced Software Bounties?
illusionist@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
That’s cool but as soon as there are such kind of bounties, there is an incentive to hold back any useful and wanted features to keep the money flowing. It’s a double edged sword
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
What about a way to donate (held in reserve for that purpose?) money after the fact for specific commits, and then have a way to indicate which things you’d be most likely to donate to going forward if they are completed? This would mean less reliable payments since there wouldn’t be a guarantee any given contribution would result in a payout, but there wouldn’t be any disincentive to work on things and there would be a general idea of what donators want. Plus doing it that way would eliminate the need for a manual escrow process.