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A comment on Ask HN: Offering bounty for bugs in an open source project – good or bad?.

Re:Ask HN: Offering bounty for bugs in an open source projec... by hnnnnnnng on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:23PM (#26948332)
It's a great way to attract people that just want to shove low quality solutions into your project. I recall github or some other org offering free tshirts if you committed to open source. Repos were flooded with one line changes and the real developers got annoyed
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Re:Ask HN: Offering bounty for bugs in an open source projec... by d4kmor on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:38AM (#26952766)
I assume you are referring to hacktoberfest. We did get a few good contributions from that but yeah it's dangerous if any contribution counts.

This got me thinking so I think those issues will need to be very well define - probably even with failing tests if possible. Also it's probably good to keep the number of bounty issues low for maintainability.

Seems there is still much to learn.

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