How should bounties be posted?

[rokejulianlockhart (Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB))]

I came across the undermentioned description of how a user intended to post a GIMP bounty to have an issue remediated: ^[1]

If the treasurer sends me the bank details, with an assurance it goes ONLY to fixing this issue, right away, I’ll electronically transfer the cash, half now, half on completion (with an additional tip).

I’d like to advise the user that that probably isn’t the way to conduct a bounty. However, the information online about how GNOME accepts bounties is very old, sparse, and definitely outdated: ^[2]

@rokejulianlockhart

wiki.gnome.org/Attic/BountiesDiscussion

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I also don’t believe that the undermentioned applies to this:

@ebassi

Real “10 minutes of a maintainer’s time” tasks are great for new volunteers, in order to get them acquainted with a project; they are few and far between, and they already require maintainer’s time to identify in the pool of potential issues; to describe a solution in a way that is compatible with inclusion; and to guide a new contributor towards acceptance. They should never be placed under a “bounty system”, because those are the tasks that allow increasing the contributors base, and placing any monetary reward is problematic at best (new contributors don’t stay without compensation), and counterproductive at worst (we lose unpaid contributors).

…and I’ve seen them be posted and accepted on GitLab a few times.

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1. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/6#note_2554353 ↩︎

2. blogs.gnome.org/aday/2023/08/02/what-to-do-with-the-gnome-wiki/ ↩︎