[QGIS-Developer] "Needs sponsor" label? (again) → "Start a bounty"

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi,
we attempted a similar system several years ago, and we found that the
amount of management work was quite relevant, out of our capabilities at
that time. Unsure things have changes over time. A fully automatic
system would be good.
Cheers.

On 05/10/19 21:58, Aurelio Pires wrote:
> +1
> 
> Best regards,
> A.Pires
> 
> 
> On 2019-10-05 16:38, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I really like gis.stackexchange bounty mechanism [1]. Issues could have
>> a "start a bounty" button, exactly like the gis.stackechange. Users
>> could allocate any amount between 50 and 500 bounty points, in 50-point
>> increments. Any user (other than the one reporting the issue) can ass
>> bounty points.
>>
>> How they get bounty-points? Donations to QGIS (managed by PSC) awards
>> bounty-points to that user/company/community. An 1.000,00 € donation
>> would award 1000 bounty-points. They can invest the bounty points to
>> solve issues.
>>
>> Developer(s)/ able to solve the issue would be refunded (in real money)
>> according to the number of bounty point.
>>
>> This wouldn't be difficult to implement, I think. The mechanism is
>> really transparent, for users and for developers.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jorge Gustavo
>>
>> [1] https://gis.stackexchange.com/help/bounty
>>
>>
>> Às 08:28 de 05/10/19, Matthias Kuhn escreveu:
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> On 10/5/19 7:02 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>>>> My original thinking was that we would use this tag for tickets which
>>>>> require extensive development (e.g. weeks of development), and
>>>>> accordingly are extremely unlikely to happen on a solely volunteer
>>>>> basis.
>>>> this makes sense. Perhaps better advertizing one of these tickets as
>>>> soon as one dev is interested and available to fix it?
>>> I think there is still a missing link from an issue to how to proceed if
>>> one wants to have it resolved.
>>>
>>> For an average visitor it might appear as "It has been registered in the
>>> tracker, it will eventually be resolved", presumably by pure magic ;)
>>>
>>> What would be good is instructions on the possibilities to get things
>>> done well visible there. Something like a "Help us fix this issue"
>>> button just next to the issue discussion.
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
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