I'll be honest it's partially unclear because this is bouncing it off people thing at this point in time. This probably frustrates some people but I think these are things that as a community we should have dialogues about.
If I were asked to put forth my personal vision it would be something like this: The community votes on bugs over X age (a year old?) using some kind of mechanism and presumably ranks based on priority. We then offer bug bounties on a set rate to Y number of bugs based on how much we have in that fund. Let's say we have $1,000 and pay $100 per bug, then we can offer it to the top ten bugs ranked by people's votes. There are flaws with that approach. Some may say it does't give weight to payments based on complexity of bug (and that's true) and some would say it doesn't weigh importance of more recent bugs (and that's true). Fixing those things add issues of their own and maybe we want to take those issues on. That's part of why I'm throwing it out. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Tim Spindler <[email protected]> wrote: > Rogan, > > It is a little unclear what you are proposing. Are you proposing that > bounties are given for fixing bugs? Finding bugs? or Both? > > Don't get me wrong, I think it has some real potential. If we are to put > resources to it, I would advocate for rewarding those who fix bugs because > I'm sure many are pressured to add features but not rewarded to fix bugs. > > Tim > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Rogan Hamby <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I wanted to bring up an idea that has been kicked around by several folks >> (including myself). At this point I don't have a fleshed out >> implementation proposal in mind but wanted to throw it out for >> consideration. The context of conversation so far had been targeting older >> bugs though perhaps we should weight them by priority as well. What, how >> much and where are big questions attached to funds. But, I don't want to >> put the cart before the horse. This is a practice used successfully by >> some other open source projects and I think there's merit in considering it. >> >> Excuse my brevity, sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> >> Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA >> Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, >> York County Library System >> >> "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to >> suit me." >> -- C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis> >> >> > > > -- > Tim Spindler > [email protected] > > *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless > it's really necessary.* > > > -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -- C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
