Depends where it'll go. It could be good if we start seeing more developers become full time open sourcerers (see what I did there?). A few extra bucks isn't really going to make it worth the effort though.
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I'm thinking feature request bounties. Have our engineers estimate LOE, pay at a fair market rate (~$65/hr), take applications so multiple devs aren't doing parallel, competitive work. So payment directly to devs.
Depends where it'll go. It could be good if we start seeing more developers become full time open sourcerers (see what I did there?). A few extra bucks isn't really going to make it worth the effort though.
I'm thinking feature request bounties. Have our engineers estimate LOE, pay at a fair market rate (~$65/hr), take applications so multiple devs aren't doing parallel, competitive work. So payment directly to devs.
This sounds like bountysource would work better if you're going with that type of model.