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I'm assuming you've seen: https://www.bountysource.com
I had wanted to build a funding platform for open source as well but I don't think a bounty board is the right way to do it anymore.
The other people I have seen taking a stab at the idea are:
https://github.com/flatiron-school/gitbo
Repo seems stale now so they might have given up.
I think maybe each bug could have a pot where people could put an amount, and if a developer fixed that bug and enough people agreed he would get that pot. That way developers could pick the bugs where people are willing to put their money where their mouth is.
I think this is probably why gittip works so well. Set it and forget it.
I'm assuming you've seen: https://www.bountysource.com
This is not an elegant poll.
I think maybe each bug could have a pot where people could put an amount, and if a developer fixed that bug and enough people agreed he would get that pot. That way developers could pick the bugs where people are willing to put their money where their mouth is.
Synergy does this. You buy votes with a donation and then you apply the votes to issues in the issue tracker. They recently fixed a bug that had been there for a long time but the devs thought wasn't important until a lot of people started voting for it with their dollars. It seems that this might encourage developers to leave bugs outstanding or introduce new ones as a way to generate revenue though, unless a simila…
Emphasizing this. This is why the police sometimes oppose safe streets and raised speed limits: it decreases their revenue from speeding tickets. It's a fairly well-known problem, though I've never heard of a fix.
This was one of the lessons from Google Answers, an early version of Stack, Quora, etc, which paid people.
There's a good basis in psychology for this. If you look at studies about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, you find payments (and external rewards generally) can be counter-productive and make people less motivated than if they're doing the same task for free.