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Years ago we had a pretty critical issue in an open source project that we were dependent on. I looked into fixing it but it was pretty complex to even figure o
by Ensorceled 3y ago
Years ago we had a pretty critical issue in an open source project that we were dependent on. I looked into fixing it but it was pretty complex to even figure out the real cause.
We reached out to the primary contributor and offered them money to fix. They countered with a largish donation to the project, we agreed and 5am the next morning there was a patch that got us up and running.
Not sure a bounty would have helped us here.
- j16sdiz 3y agoI think the article was about "outsiders" offer bounty to other "outsiders" to work on arbitrary projects. These were once very popular in form of "we support oss in general, you can get $10 if you get any PR merged to any of these projects"
- Ensorceled 3y agoBounties are offered to the community at large and can be jumped on by anyone. I think a “bounty” that is offered just to the current contributors is less of an issue. But, oh man, that “get a PR merged” campaign was a disaster.