[Mono-devel-list] Sponsoring Mono bugfixes

[Martin Baulig]

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 12:00 +0200, Luke Venediger wrote:

> What does the community think of the idea of sponsoring developers to
> fix Mono bugs? For example, you might be developing for the mono
> runtime and there is a bug that is preventing you from going any
> further with your project. You could offer, say, $20 to the first
> person that fixes the bug. The size of the "ransom" could depend on
> the size of the bug.

Hello,

I think it's better to use bounties as a reward for doing good work (for
instance implementing a super-cool killer-feature) rather than as a
motivation for doing boring work.

IMHO paying someone money to fix a boring bug has the inherent danger
that people won't fix such bugs anymore, but wait until someone sets a
bounty on them.

Martin