External funded development site
Hi everyone,
yesterday, I stumbled about this (following a link from the elementaryOS website): https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/459306-inkscape
Seems they do 'funded development' for Inkscape (and everyone else...) without us even knowing about it (or maybe someone does?). They pull the data from launchpad.
They say they collect money for bug bounties, and reward that to the dev who closes the bug, with a 10% deduction if the dev asks for transfer of the money to his/her bank account/paypal account/etc.
I don't know how (if?) they inform a developer about the bounty, when the project doesn't even have a representative registered on their website. To me, it sounded as if the developer must actively ask them to pay out the reward (please read their TOS/FAQ, I'm not a native speaker). They also allow projects to setup donation campaigns.
Currently, there are no bounties for Inkscape on their site.
Do we need to do anything about this?
The options we have seem to be: - create an account and make sure that everything goes correctly, and use it actively - create an account and just keep an eye on it - ask them to not include Inkscape, or somehow make it clear that this is not endorsed by us (if it isn't) - officially decide that that thing can run in parallel with our own funded projects without problems and without us doing anything
Regards, Maren
I certainly can't answer any of your questions, but I share your concerns. Although it doesn't look like they take any fees for this "service".
It seems like another one of those "if we build it, they will come" type of organization. I just don't understand why they go to so much trouble, without apparently having any association with the open source projects which they seek to serve (except for being another one of those open source projects).
I suppose there's no risk in allowing the potential Bountysource account to exist, especially if it remains "potential". But I do wonder about them taking the content from Launchpad. I guess as an open source project, the bug reports must be as "open" as the code....so I guess there's no copyright issue.
I'm trying to figure out how they choose which reports to post. Launchpad reports that there are currently 3629 bug reports and BS shows 3823 bug reports.... So they aren't exactly up to date, I guess. And they don't show all the comments for a given report. It looks like they leave out comments where the status or importance is changed. Wouldn't that be important info for a potential developer to have? In some cases, it looks like they have bug reports listed which have already been assigned. I'm not sure if that's appropriate either.
Well anyway, just some observations, fwiw. I'll be interested to follow this topic.
All best :-)
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Maren Hachmann" <maren@...3165...> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 10:29 AM To: "Inkscape Devel List" inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] External funded development site
Hi everyone,
yesterday, I stumbled about this (following a link from the elementaryOS website): https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/459306-inkscape
Seems they do 'funded development' for Inkscape (and everyone else...) without us even knowing about it (or maybe someone does?). They pull the data from launchpad.
They say they collect money for bug bounties, and reward that to the dev who closes the bug, with a 10% deduction if the dev asks for transfer of the money to his/her bank account/paypal account/etc.
I don't know how (if?) they inform a developer about the bounty, when the project doesn't even have a representative registered on their website. To me, it sounded as if the developer must actively ask them to pay out the reward (please read their TOS/FAQ, I'm not a native speaker). They also allow projects to setup donation campaigns.
Currently, there are no bounties for Inkscape on their site.
Do we need to do anything about this?
The options we have seem to be:
- create an account and make sure that everything goes correctly, and use
it actively
- create an account and just keep an eye on it
- ask them to not include Inkscape, or somehow make it clear that this is
not endorsed by us (if it isn't)
- officially decide that that thing can run in parallel with our own
funded projects without problems and without us doing anything
Regards, Maren
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On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 06:29:24PM +0200, Maren Hachmann wrote:
Hi everyone,
yesterday, I stumbled about this (following a link from the elementaryOS website): https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/459306-inkscape
Seems they do 'funded development' for Inkscape (and everyone else...) without us even knowing about it (or maybe someone does?). They pull the data from launchpad.
They say they collect money for bug bounties, and reward that to the dev who closes the bug, with a 10% deduction if the dev asks for transfer of the money to his/her bank account/paypal account/etc.
I don't know how (if?) they inform a developer about the bounty, when the project doesn't even have a representative registered on their website. To me, it sounded as if the developer must actively ask them to pay out the reward (please read their TOS/FAQ, I'm not a native speaker). They also allow projects to setup donation campaigns.
Currently, there are no bounties for Inkscape on their site.
Do we need to do anything about this?
The options we have seem to be:
- create an account and make sure that everything goes correctly, and use it actively
- create an account and just keep an eye on it
- ask them to not include Inkscape, or somehow make it clear that this is not endorsed by us (if it isn't)
- officially decide that that thing can run in parallel with our own funded projects without problems and without us doing anything
Given that they have $0 pledged, it seems hardly worth worrying about. :-)
The watchers and age is simply taken from the launchpad stats, so this doesn't even add any useful data to the mix.
Bryce
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