> Spend a week working on this issue for free? No problem! I love to contribute to software I use. > Spend a week working on this issue for $50? No way! I'd ne

> Spend a week working on this issue for free? No problem! I love to contribute to software I use. > Spend a week working on this issue for $50? No way! I'd never work for so little. I can certainly see it having this affect. And hopefully there will be ways to mitigate it. But I don't see any harm in trying to bring some additional funding into OSS development. Also I feel like it would be nice supplemental income for sole maintainers, who would likely be tackling these issues anyway.