[Interest] Bounties?

[Koehne Kai]

>> Still, I remain skeptical for a money-based bounty system for Qt. I'm not
>> aware of any project successfully implementing such a bounty system,
>> although the idea pops up since years [1]. Also, my best guess is that
most
>> people contributing to Qt are either employed to do this, or have other
day-
>> time jobs. And their count is limited: So by backing up "your" bug with
money
>> you at best shifting focus around.
>
> If this is true it would be a pity. But even if only a single developer
> could be hired from the collected money it would be great.
>
> So you wouldn't give it a try?

I'm just voicing my private opinion here. But I also wouldn't hold my breath for a fully fledged bounty system to appear on bugreports.qt.io right now ...

Fortunately, that's also not necessary: I think nobody will stop you if you just announce bounties through a comment. 

I'd probably use one of the known bounty sites though, and then just link to it. https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/othercrowdfunding#bounty has a good overview of platforms. Bountysource seems to be most popular with currently two open Qt related bounties, but hey, you can already earn 100$ for https://freedomsponsors.org/issue/440/rewrite-of-qt-in-erlang :-).

I think it'll be a lot easier to convince the Qt Project JIRA admins to hack on a bounty system if there's some precedence that the system actually works :) 

Regards

Kai Koehne