> Really anything can be applied for as a contribution, you can rock up right now and say you'll translate the docs into Esperanto for X amount and the communit

> Really anything can be applied for as a contribution, you can rock up right now and say you'll translate the docs into Esperanto for X amount and the community decides if that's worth paying out of the pool for this round, if rejected you can apply again next round, no hard feelings. Let's say the community decides it's worth paying for that. Does payment happen up front, or only upon completion of work? If the latter, who decides if the work meets the standard that was expected and thus is worth paying out for?