Bountysource decided to update their Terms of service today: 2.13 Bounty Time-Out. If no Solution is accepted within two years after a Bounty is posted, then the Bounty will be withdrawn and the amount posted for the Bounty will be retained by Bountysource. For Bounties posted before June 30, 201…

Good news: the money was received at KDE e.V.'s account and could be assigned to Nextcloud Include. So for those who would also like to transfer/donate their Bountysource money there I would suggest the following plan Check your Bountysource account history at https://www.bountysource.com/activit…

Thanks! I immediately changed it! [image] Nextcloud: set donation to https://nextcloud.com/include (!7217) · Merge... Signed-off-by: tobiasKaminsky

That is cool and seems Nextcloud Include diversity + mentioring is quite different from a bounty program for adding features and bug fixes. Are there any plans to add a different bounty program?

Hello :wave: has the transfer worked for those who wanted to move their money over? :slight_smile:

I don’t think so. This concept has always been quite misleading. Like people posted bounties on something and expected magic to happen, like if someone else would pick these tickets up quickly and deliver code for a relatively low price. Over time the bounties grew as many people posted small amount…

[image] ChristophWurst: PR with a useless to mediocre implementation at best, leaving us with the work for the last 20%, which in turn require 80% of the effort as per the pareto principle because we’re the ones that have to maintain features for the upcoming years. If a PR is not up to stand…

So far the theory, yes. But in practice developers most often don’t ask about how to approach the problem at hand before they start coding. So I’ve found myself in the situation where the PR was close to not acceptable, and then the hunters get frustrated because their quick solution was not accepte…

[image] ChristophWurst: If you then ask for changes it often takes ages. And if there is a bit of back and forth that takes longer than like a few days they lose interest. Okay, but then they don’t get the money anyway? Maybe it is a bit of a steering effect then.

Yes, but the non-coders who post bountes do not always get why we don’t accept the solution. For them it looks like we’re arbitrarily blocking something. Let’s not get too distracted with this here, after all this topic is just about how we can save some money from the sinking bountysource ship …

[image] ChristophWurst: Thus I personally am an opposed on a per-feature compensation. People should rather hire a freelancer for those jobs if they just need one thing changed. Then the rates will also be more realistic. Problem is that some really would like to have a certain feature. For n…

I’m new to this thread sorry, I’ve read a fair bit of it but not everything. I just wanted to ask as I assume some of you have used Bountysource more than myself, on July 1st BountySource Inc. was acquired The Blockchain Group, and the CEO changed to Xavier Latil. Does everyone know this, and woul…

Don't use bountysource anymore!

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Halle_Luja August 24, 2020, 9:49am 60

I created a topic to discuss alternatives so this thread doesn’t get too mixed up: