Open-source bounty

An open-source bounty is a monetary reward for completing a task in an open-source software project.

Description

Bounties are usually offered as an incentive for fixing software bugs or implementing minor features. Bounty driven development is one of the Business models for open-source software. The compensation offered for an open-source bounty is usually small.

Alternatives

When open-source projects require bigger funds they usually apply for grants or, most recently, launch crowdsourcing or crowdfunding campaigns, typically organized over platforms like Kickstarter[1] or BountyC (since 2004 also crowdfunding[2]).

Examples of bounties

Examples of websites listing bounties for multiple projects

  • Bountysource
  • Gitcoin is an open source bounty marketplace which has awarded more than $735,000 through its platform since its launch in November 2017, as of January 2019[10]. It has GitHub integration and allows OSS maintainers to add bounties to specific issues on their GitHub repositories, and award contributors for pull requests that solve the issue.
  • Devcash is a decentralized bounty platform where users utilize DEV to crowdsource developer talent or perform developer tasks and earn DEV.
  • huntr is a bug bounty board for securing open-source code, where it pays users for finding and fixing vulnerabilities.
  • IssueHunt is an issue-based bounty platform for open source projects. Anyone can fund specific issues of GitHub repo, and these bounties will be distributed to contributors and maintainers.
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See also

References

  1. Lunduke, Bryan (2013-08-07). "Open source gets its own crowd-funding site, with bounties included - BountyC is the crowd-funding site the open source community has been waiting for". networkworld.com. Retrieved 2013-08-10. Many open source projects (from phones to programming tools) have taken to crowd-funding sites (such as Kickstarter and indiegogo) in order to raise the cash needed for large-scale development. And, in some cases, this has worked out quite well.
  2. "Bountysource Raises $1.1 Million for the First Crowdfunding Platform for Open-Source Software Projects". finance.yahoo.com. 2013-07-16. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
  3. https://blog.canya.com/2018/05/03/bountysource-education-first-increase-mozilla-webrtc-bounty-to-a-whopping-50000/
  4. Sun Sponsors Open Source Community $1M Innovation Award, Sun MicroSystems, archived from the original on 2008-12-19
  5. Leyden, John (2004-08-03), Mozilla to pay bounty on bugs, The Register
  6. "Ghostscript: Bug bounty program". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  7. "Amiga.org - Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II) Assigned". Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  8. "Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II)". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  9. "RISC OS Open: All bounties". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  10. "Gitcoin OSS bounty results". Retrieved 12 January 2019.


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