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The biggest challenge here is measuring the quality of someone's contributions and adjusting compensation accordingly. Not every commit is worth the same level
by burtonator 5y ago
The biggest challenge here is measuring the quality of someone's contributions and adjusting compensation accordingly.
Not every commit is worth the same level of compensation.
Companies like Google/Amazon have to go through and adjust compensation based on talent and contribution levels, but how would that be done in Open Source?
- joshspankit 5y agoAgreed. Even in my ideal scenario that's still a part that is difficult. My only thought is that that compensation amount is determined before the PR is accepted (or maybe even before it's asked for, like a bounty). In [my] ideal scenario it's not the people that are vetted and compensated, but the work itself. A student who comes up with a particularly genius contribution could be compensated as equally as someone who worked in the field for decades and proposed the same contribution. Note: it also requires an environment where work is recorded publicly so that plagiarism is essentially impossible, though that brings it's own challenges.