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I'm afraid that those bounty programs may create an expectation that all contributions need to be paid. If someone makes unpaid high-quality contributions for a
by m3nu 6y ago
I'm afraid that those bounty programs may create an expectation that all contributions need to be paid. If someone makes unpaid high-quality contributions for a long time and then sees someone else being paid for a minor fix, it will leave a sour taste.
On one of my own projects someone randomly added a bounty to an issue that was mostly an upstream issue. Of course the original poster had good intentions, but didn't fully understand this.
- onion2k 6y agoI'm afraid that those bounty programs may create an expectation that all contributions need to be paid. Why would that be a bad thing? Contributors should be getting paid.
- canofbars 6y agoI can't imagine it working too well anyway. Valuable work isn't done by drive by contributions very often. It usually takes someone a very long time to become familiar with the project. The first few contributions are likely wasting the maintainers time but over time they become valuable contributors.
- themanmaran 6y ago> over time they become valuable contributors That's the hope is to bring some more people into OS contributions who haven't tried it out before. I have funded a couple issues at like $25 that were marked "Good First Issue". And I've had people reach out saying they were excited to have done their first pull request.