[Interest] Bounties?

[André Somers]

Koehne Kai schreef op 13-3-2015 om 10:35:
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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.
Neither do I. But multiple of those pledges attached to a single bug may 
be interesting enough. If not for TQtC, then perhaps for a student 
somewhere looking to earn some pocket money with his hobby...

I am by no means convinced that it will work, but I do think that it may 
stand a chance if it would be properly integrated into the system. 
Outside sites, spread around all over the place, IMHO have little chance 
to work for this. It may however be possible to seek cooperation with an 
organization offering this to handle the execution of payments and the 
likes, yet integrating it into the issuetracker?

>> 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.
>
Indeed, that is problematic. I think integrating with a party who can 
offer such services already would be the only option to handle this 
efficiently.

André