If the project passes, the developer gets paid. If there's some sort of dispute, we can manually arbitrate. Again, our metrics are for broad consensus and hav

If the project passes, the developer gets paid. If there's some sort of dispute, we can manually arbitrate. Again, our metrics are for broad consensus and having the shipped product match the original proposal. If those two conditions are met, I think in all fairness, the developer should be paid. Contributors can only pull money if it's been more than 30 days since they made the contribution. After that 30 day holding period, they can walk. We've considered playing with that number, or letting it be variable. Contributors don't have great incentive to let an election fail; if it does, they don't get any software (other than whatever demo the developer posted). While I'm sure there will be cranky contributors here and there, hopefully we can factor them out to some extent in our election process. At the macro level, people are going to want the project they contributed to released.