> > -----Original Message----- > > [...] > > > 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) > > That's not true as such. Though having silver or gold support will hopefully > give the task an extra boost :) > > > 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. > > Alright, I didn't want to be rude. Sure there are people for which $174 is a > lot of money, and I appreciate that you and other's feel committed to > contribute to Qt in one way or the other. > > 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. > > What I'd rather like to see is getting more people to be active contributors. > This way we could actually achieve more in total ... I'd like to think of the > Qt developer community as pretty open and inclusive, but surely there's still > stuff to improve. > > > [...] > > > 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. > > If I'm actually after the money, I'll rather make sure that semi-anonymous > JIRA user who placed the bounty pays in the end. I don't see how this can > work short of a trusted entity taking care of this. > > [1]: See e.g. https://blogs.kde.org/2005/05/14/thoughts-votes-and-bounties . > There are also traces of a GNOME bounty system on the net from 2005 ...
FWIW, I would love a bounty system. There are a few small scope "showstopper" issues that I frequently run into and having something better than posting a ransom on this group would be a much better way to go about it. Features of a official/semi-official system. - Awards only go to the person(s) who contribute lines of code to the solution. (Fair and equitable disbursement) - Award decisions are not made by the funder or the developer, but a 3rd impartial body. - Code goes into Qt proper, with regular Q/A processes - Multiple people with the same issue can combine bounties - Digia/Whomever owns Qt now can take a small % for mainating the system overall. Downsides: - Qt can be 'derailed' by big players (Like Nokia did with Qt Mobile) - Existing paid Qt developers... We don't want to derail their work. How does existing compensation systems work? _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
