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Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs

#31
For a side project I wanted to experiment with a very similar idea.

Due to other commitments I was not able to give the project the love it deserved. Perhaps some of the code or concepts will be useful for you guys:

https://github.com/codebounty/codebounty codebounty.co

Let me know if I can help. @jon_perl

Re: Bribe developers to fix bugs

#32

Aka, extort users to pay for bug fixes :)

We hope that the vast majority of users will not exploit users. There are also many businesses which rely on open source software but there is no system for them to find and pay capable developers to fix bugs or implement new features they need. One area we have discussed is Wordpress plugins. There are thousands of users using various plugins which may need some updates. They need to be updated as web browsers chang…

Yep, definitely sounds like an appropriate use case. I was just poking a little fun at the possibility of it being used to exploit users.
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