I know Google generally isn't in the business of making money on its products, but please consider this seriously.
Issues are implemented well in Projects, you can star them, stay up to date and comment easily. I want to attach money to issues. Others have tried this and failed, but Google has the respect and wherewithal to implement this correctly. Specifically, other bounty programs fail because they aren't ubiquitous/site wide and arbitration/payment is unclear. What about this: On every issue, next to the Star button add a $ button. A form opens just like you are typing a comment, but also has: * Dollar amount * A date * A drop down list of non profit organizations AND YOU PAY ON THE SPOT. During payment the rest of these details are explained. The comment shows in the comment stream but says "commitment not yet accepted". The project team has 2 weeks to accept the commitment (switches to "commitment active") or it gets automatically declined with money returning to sender. While the commitment is active the user can at any time release the funds to the project. At the prespecified date, the user has the choice to release funds to the project, to release the funds to the non profit or to delay the date further. Once the money is committed, the user can never get it back, and the committer and the developer both want to task to succeed (THIS IS THE MAIN FEATURE). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-code-hosting/-/9KyYBhfshEIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
