I think it's less that a carrot is offered and more than carrots can be more or less harmful to the project as a whole and the developers both maintaining the p

I think it's less that a carrot is offered and more than carrots can be more or less harmful to the project as a whole and the developers both maintaining the project and working for the carrot depending on how the carrot is offered. ZSF seems plenty happy to pay people for work. They also seem plenty happy with companies that are employing people that do work with and for Zig. The complaint here is about a form of payment that amounts to encouraging developers to race against time and each other to complete a specific task, rather than actually take the time to do work that has been prioritized and vetted. This whole thing is very reminiscent of the disaster that was Hacktoberfest, where a prize was offered to do a task on other people's projects without consideration for the how the nature of the incentive might change the nature of the completed work.