I think Matthew is right, it might cause legal issues if we're paying someone anonymously, we have to report all expenditures to the IRS and they might not react too well to us paying significant amounts of money to anonymous bitcoin addresses. It could be considered money-laundering, for example. There is also a trust issue, since we would probably need to give them access to source repos and other things - and it would be irresponsible to do that with someone we know nothing about. Ian.
On Sun, May 7, 2017 6:26 PM, Steve Dougherty st...@asksteved.com wrote: Is your understanding consistent with Matthew's that FPI cannot pay a developer who remains anonymous to FPI? Are you willing to have FPI offer bug bounties? If so, I can put out the call. Would you rather that we engage individual non-proven developers one at a time and offer them lump sums for merged code instead? That would make setting a deadline reasonable, at least, which would be nice. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: DDG Tasks Bug Bounty Proposal Local Time: May 6, 2017 3:46 PM UTC Time: May 6, 2017 7:46 PM From: i...@locut.us To: devl@freenetproject.org Interesting idea, but isn't there a danger of duplicated effort with this approach? It would be annoying to put a bunch of work into something only to be beaten to the finish line by someone else. From a developer's perspective that would add to the risk and may be a disincentive to try. On Sat, May 6, 2017, 4:53 AM Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> wrote: Hi everyone, To my understanding, at least currently xor does not want FPI to pay him for his work. Some developers on FMS have proposed bug bounties - say, $1000 - for completing a task like "fix Windows tray / installer to work with 64-bit Java." This would be in a "first to get reviewed and merged gets paid" fashion, the idea being we can pay people not yet familiar with the project to familiarize themselves and not have to commit to paying an unknown developer hourly. At least one developer has asked that payment be available in crypto currency; this seems reasonable to me. Thoughts? - Steve -- Stacks http://trystacks.com/ - Our AI will save you money
