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From everything I've seen (and I've also put up a few bounties myself), bounties generally don't work. Most bounties are put up only for longstanding issues, an
by hobofan 8y ago
From everything I've seen (and I've also put up a few bounties myself), bounties generally don't work. Most bounties are put up only for longstanding issues, and those issues are longstanding because they are not trivial to fix. A $100 bounty then isn't much of an incentive, if e.g. $3000 worth of working hours have to be spent on fixing the issue.
- Ensorceled 8y agoYeah, mixed bag for me as well, but if the mechanic was easier I think small bugs or improvements would easier to bounty. Sometimes, I’d have my company pay $50 to merge a pull request :-)
- magduf 8y agoMaybe there should be (if there isn't already) a way for multiple people to add to the same bounty. So if 100 people are all annoyed by some longstanding issue and each offer $100 bounties, that's $10k for someone to fix it.
- hobofan 8y agoWith Bountysource (the platform I used), there is. IIRC, they will also post a comment on the issue, listing the current bounty, and optionally also automatically apply appropriate labels to issues, so it's obvious to anyone on the Github issue. Most of the solutions proposed in this thread for one-off bounties here have already been implemented for years, which is why I am convinced that (with the current level of funding), bounties don't work.
- magduf 8y agoYeah, unfortunately it seems like one of those things that's a great idea in theory, but doesn't work well in practice.