[Interest] Bounties?

[Bernhard]

> > 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.

Of course. Still it is the one and only official bug tracker. Isn't it?

> 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

Some support guy told me that priority bug fixing comes with enterprise
license (Silver support). (Still I did not get any response from the CC-ed
sales person about the costs but surely they are significant)

Regarding $174 for a professional license... for a startup this IS a
significant amount of money. Also I have doubts about effectivity of Bronze
support level regarding bug fixes.

BTW... the 8 years old issue I mentioned has the tag
"Reported_by_support_silver" and is not a complex beast and still it isn't
implemented after 8 years. So obviously paying for a license (even
enterprise level) is not a guarantee to get problems solved.

> > 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.

This is no problem using Paypal. There are many internet businesses out
there doing this all day.

-- 
Kind Regards
Bernhard Lindner

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