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Donations and bounty for bug and feature hunting.
by Jo Řiongen on Wednesday 20/Oct/2004, @02:09
This is probably not the right place to put forward this idea but it has to start somewhere :-)

My itch that i want to scratch is more or less as follows. I would like to donate to the KDE project but I would like my money to be used on solving specific problems.

One of these is support for webcam in Kopete. "See here http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70538 "

My idea is to add the option to donate to a bounty for this (and other) feature(s). It would be great to have a "PayPal" (or similar) option in the voting dialog. The bounty would be claimed by he/she/those who implement the feature (or fixes a bug).

Administrative problems that needs to be solved is among other "who will be responsible for releasing the bounty", "who will say this solution is good enough to claim the bounty" etc...

Feedback? Questions? Flames?

Cheers Jo
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Re: Donations and bounty for bug and feature hunting.
by Andras Mantia on Wednesday 20/Oct/2004, @02:45
Some projects (like KMail if I'm not mistaken) have such kind of offer. For others, I'd suggest you to contact the developers on the project mailing list and raise up your offer. I think you have high chances to find a developer who will want to fix a bug or implement a feature for some money.

Andras
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  • Re: Donations and bounty for bug and feature hunting.
    by Jo Řiongen on Wednesday 20/Oct/2004, @23:50
    Did not know that Kmail offered this opportunity. But I would really like to be able to browse bugzilla and see what is the bounty for this feature to day? Then developers could choose a task where they feel that the effort/pay ratio is good enough. And for me as a contributer I could make an evaluation on where my money would be best spent. (If there are to features I would like to see implemented and I only can afford to sponsor one I could evaluate which one was closest to fulfillment).

    Cheers Jo
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    • Re: Donations and bounty for bug and feature hunting.
      by Andras Mantia on Thursday 21/Oct/2004, @11:16
      Look at http://www.kontact.org/shopping. I don't say that it would be not nice to be possible to add an entry to bugzilla where developers could say "I'd do this for XXX money", and those wanted to support KDE development could pick up one of those entries, but the other approach is also straightforward and logical: you want a feature (and you *know* what you need) or you are annoyed by a bug, so you approach the developers and offer something in order to see the bug/feature implemented. This way you really sponsor the one who does the job that you really want.
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another way to donate is ideacradle or dropcash
by Brad Sears on Friday 22/Oct/2004, @07:42
You can check out http://www.ideacradle.com and http://www.dropcash.com for simple bounty creation tools.
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