> -----Original Message----- > From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany....@qt-project.org > [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany....@qt-project.org] > On Behalf Of Bernhard > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 10:14 AM > To: interest@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. > 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. Regards Kai _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
