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On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 12:52:24 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 August 2015 at 09:37:41 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> We do something even better, you can place bounties on 
>> specific issues that you're willing to pay for:
>
> The bounty thing is pretty useless to me. The amounts don't 
> even cover the administrative overhead (working through all the 
> hassle to actually claim it takes a lot of time), and certainly 
> aren't enough to plan ahead on.
>
> Without being able to reliably budget, it cannot be a 
> replacement for any day jobs.... which means I can't quit a job 
> to make time to do it.
>
> Which means the only bugs I fix are the ones I would have fixed 
> anyway, regardless of the bounty. I suspect a lot of other devs 
> are in the same position.

Yes, I have roughly the same critics against the bountysource. If 
bounties don't cover actual development costs, they don't 
motivate.