> as for the actual point of the article, it seems highly inefficient to post problems and assume the right (interested) people will take them on The question

> as for the actual point of the article, it seems highly inefficient to post problems and assume the right (interested) people will take them on The question is: Is it more or less efficient than alternatives, such as the fairly common practice of picking a software engineer out of a creatively-named-or-architected-hat and saying "You, you do it"? If your selection process doesn't account for interest, you're losing significant efficiency on interest mis-fit. Nobody procrastinates harder than a software engineer with an ill-fitting problem.