bribes, or bounties, or prizes, or whatever you want to call it work on the extrinsic motivations for people to act. In many cases, open source projects are a product of love, that is, intrinsic motivations. There's always a risk when introducing extrinsic motivations that they'll crowd out the intrinsic.
Bribe developers to fix bugs
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Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs
#12This is amazing idea, but I'm wondering that how is transaction going to work? Will there be any amount of money that "staff" keep?
Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs
#13I like the idea. But bribe has a negative feel to it. Why not bounty?
I think it's negative in a playful way, and as a result, positive.
Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs
#14This is amazing idea, but I'm wondering that how is transaction going to work? Will there be any amount of money that "staff" keep?
The way we are going to handle the money is to take the payment when someone creates a job. The money will be held in an escrow account. Then developers can work on the job and submit their solution. Once the user accepts the work by the developer the money from the escrow account will be released to the developer. There will be a fee for the user while the developer gets the full amount pledged.
If there is a conflict we can step in to resolve it and make a decision. Since the money is in the escrow account it will not be possible for the user to just not pay and the developer cannot just take the money and run before they user accepts the solution.
Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs
#15http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-13/
Wally: "i am going to write myself a new minvan this afternoon"
Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs
#16This is different from https://www.bountysource.com/ how?
Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs
#17I like the idea. But bribe has a negative feel to it. Why not bounty?
Because that's already been done! https://www.bountysource.com/
Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs
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#19Nice idea. I think it's extra interesting since I remember reading a debate here on HN about "bribing" OSS developers.
Got a link for that debate? The name is meant to get some attention while it is our intention to help users find developers who can help them make updates to the software they use but cannot update themselves.
And the developers getting paid to make these updates may be college undergrads or someone who has a day job but dedicates sometime to working on the jobs set up on Bribe.io. They can make some money helping others while also contributing to OSS which helps everyone.
Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs
#20Some of my colleagues wrote a research paper about a system like this a few years back:
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bacon/B...
They proposed a new notion of "software correctness" as an equilibrium in which there is insufficient economic demand for any further bug fixes. Cool to see such a system being built!