[Interest] Bounties?

[Koehne Kai]

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> From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Bernhard
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 10:14 AM
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Bounties?
> 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only successful bounty systems I'm
> > aware
> of
> > are for finding (security related) bugs, not fixing bugs or developing
> features.
> 
> Well, those sites where not bound to a project. I think it makes a big
> difference if such a bounty service is directly attached to (and maybe
> controlled by) Digia. I experienced big difference in acceptance between "yet
> another" service and the "official" service.

bugreports.qt-project.org  is not limited to The Qt Company.

> Also I could think of such official bounties more as a "super-vote". Being an
> incentive for Digia itself to fix the bugs with higher priority. An enterprise
> license is probably too expensive for me. 

A commercial license starts as low as $25 per month (mobile), and $174 per month (professional).

Sorry, but I can't help to think that, if that is too expensive for your business, the money you'd dedicate to a bug bounty would be pocket money, too. And I think hunting down 10 $ bounties is not a viable business model for The Qt Company, either.

> But I could easily invest some bucks
> into the most annoying issues to make them rise in priority. This also would
> prevent "unhealthy competition" and "secrecy"
> because the official Issue tracker could be used to coordinate efforts (by
> assigning it to some person willing to resolve the issue and setting the state
> to "In Progress" so no other people start working on it in parallel).
> Still the community would be involved and could decide to fix the bug taking
> the money as a bonus.
> 
> As you said the current votes are pretty much worthless. But maybe such
> "super-votes" aka bounties could be more useful. Actually I can't see much
> harm in trying it. 

Whenever actual money has to be transferred world-wide it IMO will be considerable effort.

Regards

Kai