> Leaving money tied up on the service indefinitely is not really an option when you start talking about the kind of money that would actually motivate someone

> Leaving money tied up on the service indefinitely is not really an option when you start talking about the kind of money that would actually motivate someone to do a lot of work. This is something that I've been going back and forth on for a while. I've considered having the money be a 'pledge' like Kickstarter. Where people pledge the funds and pay out when the issue gets resolved. But that can add some technical concerns (keeping track of peoples bank details to charge them) as well as less assurance that the developer will get paid. And I especially don't want to have a platform where a developer puts in the work and doesn't earn the bounty. Parallel effort is another tricky one to solve. And I see it all the time even without funding involved. Someone comments that they're working on an issue, and then everyone else drops it for 6 months only to realize that person dropped it too. I think that splitting bounties could be a good solution. Have multiple people contribute towards a branch, and the funding gets distributed evenly.