New tag for bugs that have bounties on them

[Benjamin Root]

Quite honestly, I am very hesitant to see a bounty approach done to bug
fixing.  First of all, true bounty work should probably involve an
escrow-like service like PayPal.  Even then, I wonder what determines
success for a bug fix?  And what if the bug resurfaces?  Does the person who
place the bounty get to request a "return"?  Also, would this encourage
'quick fixes' instead of proper patches?

Just my two cents...

WeatherGod

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Mike Rooney <mrooney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Shahar Or <mightyiampresence at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear BugSquad,
> >
> > I'm beginning now to add the 'bounty' tag to bugs which have bounties on
> them.
> >
> > May I add this to the official list of tags in
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags ?
> >
>
>
> Being able to search by bugs with bounties is fairly interesting,
> though I'm not sure what the official stance is on making a new
> "official" tag.
>
> It seems like we would want to have specific guildelines on which bugs
> have a bounty, ie a bug which has a bounty listed on an official
> website (such as FOSS Factory), and not just someone saying, "I'll pay
> $100 to whoever fixes this!" and then having that person disappear
> when the bug is fixed.
>
> It seems like in the ideal world this is really something for
> Launchpad, where it would have support for linking to bounties from
> bugs/tasks, with integration for certain bounty sites, like you can do
> today with upstream bug reports.
>
> Does anyone else have any thoughts?
>
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