(This might belong to Platform and Desktop categories also) Have you ever considered the idea of having some kind of dashboard connecting 1. (un)popular issues and popular feature requests, preferably small actionable tasks, 2. people wanting to do the tasks for a small bounty and 3. people interes…

I think some general points are The “bounties” rarely reflect the time/work required - the actual code might take 10 mins but associated code reviews, comments, etc may take far longer Who gets the money - the person writing the patch? the one reviewing it? both? Money = Legal = Yikes

In case of features, who will keep it maintained if the original author disappears after receiving the bounty

[image] zbrown: The “bounties” rarely reflect the time/work required - the actual code might take 10 mins but associated code reviews, comments, etc may take far longer And, let’s face it: the coding part alone never takes 10 minutes. Otherwise, it would have been done already. Real “10 minu…

Ok, interesting, I can see some of the problems you mention, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.

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