New tag for bugs that have bounties on them

[Micah Gersten]

Mike Rooney 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?
> 

I agree. I think this would have to be done by Launchpad, if at all.  I
think both Sourceforge and Mantis support this, but I don't know how
useful it is.