The idea of creating a bounty system for open source projects is one that has been tried many times over the last decade+. These bounty systems never gain much traction because the incentive structure/economics don't work. The closest we'll get to these bounty systems are for-profit open source software companies, which is pretty good considering that there's a VC-backed open source company for almost any software category you can imagine.
The Disappointing Tea.xyz
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#12This is an obvious pump and dump scam grift.
I thought we have learned from the crypto hype that stuff like tea.xyz and others in the crypto / blockchain nonsense space are setup for investors to dump tokens on others trying to make money out of it.
It is unfortunate that this is now targeting open source developers and it is even more disappointing that this is made from the creator of Homebrew.
Who is the customer of this and why?, there is still no use case at all. A solution in a perpetual search of a non existent problem.
Shame.
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#13Eh I think it's interesting. Added it to some of my eligible projects, I'll wait and see how it goes.
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#14Max Howell (creator of homebrew) is also behind tea.xyz
imo that give them some more credibility or at least makes me think that they probably are well intentioned
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#15Max Howell (creator of homebrew) is also behind tea.xyz imo that give them some more credibility or at least makes me think that they probably are well intentioned
> more credibility
I would say the opposite. Homebrew isn't a broadly well-respected project from a purely engineering perspective (i.e. by anyone who's engaged with it in earnest) - it gets contributions because it has user-capture / network effect, but there's a lot of contributors would would prefer to be publishing packages on a more nicely stewarded platform.
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#16Just as an aside Tea.xyz is funded by Binance. [1]
Make of this what you will, but I call immediate scam.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220323005603/en/Tea...
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#17Tea is from the same person who was using AI generated descriptions in their package manager the other day. Probably best to put your old grift to bed before starting your new one?
Previous discussion which parent is referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39499734
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#18Max Howell (creator of homebrew) is also behind tea.xyz imo that give them some more credibility or at least makes me think that they probably are well intentioned
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#20Max Howell (creator of homebrew) is also behind tea.xyz imo that give them some more credibility or at least makes me think that they probably are well intentioned
If anything this makes me seriously rethink my use of homebrew. I already had security-related concerns around it, but the fact that he launched this weird crypto thing that's going to cause a lot of spam on GitHub is pushing me even further away.