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Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?

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Re: Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?

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Post by chx »

mmahemoff wrote: post #20

And similarly, I'd pay good money to have certain StackOverflow questions answered. But if these things seem like a no-brainer, there's a good reason why they're not available. (Third-parties have stepped in, but they're not officially supported.) Introducing money into the ecosystem can spoil people's motivation to do anything for free. This was one of the lessons from Google Answers, an early version of Stack, Quor…

I am one of the lead Drupal developers and I do offer a service to get your Drupal.SE questions answered. So few people actually come to me with it. I am still answering questions for free. I do not see a problem there, really. But I guess because it's not officially supported.

Re: Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?

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Post by [deleted] »

saraid216 wrote: post #18
Osiris wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> It seems that this might encourage developers to leave bugs outstanding or introduce new ones as a way to generate revenue though 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.

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Re: Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?

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Post by pserwylo »

mmahemoff wrote: post #20

And similarly, I'd pay good money to have certain StackOverflow questions answered. But if these things seem like a no-brainer, there's a good reason why they're not available. (Third-parties have stepped in, but they're not officially supported.) Introducing money into the ecosystem can spoil people's motivation to do anything for free. This was one of the lessons from Google Answers, an early version of Stack, Quor…

A similar issue comes up in other domains too. For example, St John Ambulance Australia provides first aid for public events. Most of the duties are covered by volunteer first aiders. However if they cannot meet demand (which is often the case with mid-week events where volunteers are otherwise engaged with their jobs) then there is a commercial arm which steps in to cover the event.

The problem is when you have commercial and volunteers together at the same event, and some volunteers may think:

  "Hey, screw this, why am I volunteering my time, when the guy next to me is getting paid a decent hourly wage to do exactly the same thing?"

Re: Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?

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Post by Guvante »

chx wrote: post #21
mmahemoff wrote: post #20

And similarly, I'd pay good money to have certain StackOverflow questions answered. But if these things seem like a no-brainer, there's a good reason why they're not available. (Third-parties have stepped in, but they're not officially supported.) Introducing money into the ecosystem can spoil people's motivation to do anything for free. This was one of the lessons from Google Answers, an early version of Stack, Quor…

I am one of the lead Drupal developers and I do offer a service to get your Drupal.SE questions answered. So few people actually come to me with it. I am still answering questions for free. I do not see a problem there, really. But I guess because it's not officially supported.

There is a distinction between integrated and non-integrated payments. If you are offering it off the record, you are doing contract work at a rate you like.

If you provide payments integrated, typically the financial incentives become market dictated, and once money is involved the intrinsic rewards become greatly decreased.

Re: Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?

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Post by MetaCosm »

potomak wrote: post #8
cgrusden wrote: post #5

I'm assuming you've seen: https://www.bountysource.com

Well, yes, actually I'm building http://issuehunter.co at TechPeaks[1]. What do you think about it? Are you using it? [1] http://techpeaks.eu

Time for firefox and chrome plugins that show the dollar value on a specific issue right on github, or whatever sites you support. Make it so I can add 10 dollars to an issue I care about, and add a "Sort by money" thing.

Re: Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?

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Post by hk__2 »

mmahemoff wrote: post #20

And similarly, I'd pay good money to have certain StackOverflow questions answered. But if these things seem like a no-brainer, there's a good reason why they're not available. (Third-parties have stepped in, but they're not officially supported.) Introducing money into the ecosystem can spoil people's motivation to do anything for free. This was one of the lessons from Google Answers, an early version of Stack, Quor…

Quora has some kind of pay-to-get-an-answer with credits. It’s a virtual currency on the website, and you can use them to ask someone to answer (you pay them a bunch of credits, they always get 25% of it, and can get the remaining 75% by answering the question). Unfortunately, the asked user can write a crappy answer and get all the credits ; and you can’t convert them in cash.

Re: Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?

#28

Post by Xanza »

It depends on the issue I suppose, and what I was using the code for. Obviously I want to help out other developers, but if we start adding to the idea that 'paying for open source absolution' is okay you start to get things like this: http://readwrite.com/2013/05/31/mysql-co-founder-wants-you-t...

Which I really don't think is okay. However, I fully support helping developers spend their time doing what they love to do; but wouldn't spend more than $5 on any one thing. If you think about it, you could have a really successful middleware or something and get $5 from 1,000 people at once, or $5,000 for doing something that you were intending on doing anyways... Seems kinda underhanded to me as an open source developer.

Re: Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?

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Post by Xanza »

mmahemoff wrote: post #20

And similarly, I'd pay good money to have certain StackOverflow questions answered. But if these things seem like a no-brainer, there's a good reason why they're not available. (Third-parties have stepped in, but they're not officially supported.) Introducing money into the ecosystem can spoil people's motivation to do anything for free. This was one of the lessons from Google Answers, an early version of Stack, Quor…

This I support more than paying for bug fixes.
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