Re:An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake
by embwbam on Friday June 28, 2013 @03:52PM
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Wait! Read "Drive" first. Open Source is a textbook example of people working for intrinsic motivation. While offering money might make that bug get fixed sooner, it very often reduces their drive to work on the open source project in the long run.
Re:An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake
by hackiavelli on Friday June 28, 2013 @05:21PM
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I can definitely see it having a negative effect. I don't do bounties anymore. It was too easy to get ripped off. They're basically a freelance gig with no guarantee of getting paid and no deposit to protect you when the person disappears after the work is done.
Thing is I likely would have done the work anyway. Bugs are community issues that effect everyone and contributing fixes for them keeps an open source project vibrant and active. But instead of feeling good about fixing some obscure bug I felt like I'd been used by someone who didn't want to pay for a developer.
Re:An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake
by famousactress on Friday June 28, 2013 @03:42PM
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Still feels icky to me. I'd rather this stuff be public and done in a way that the community and the rest of the core team know what's going on. I'd worry that backdoor payments done this way would negatively affect the spirit of how these projects are run.
Open source developers don't bite, and they never say no to a bit of extra cash :)