Bug Bounties: Lessons Learned
- I did a personal bug bounty program in 2007, pledging 2700 USD for work
on 7 SeaMonkey bugs
- 4 top-paid items stay unfixed after half a year, 3 simpler items done
- Nice to get some money to help doing needed work
- No substantial speeding up of high-bounty tasks
- Mainly experienced developers picking up tasks
- Some feel uncomfortable with selective payment of volunteers
- Money is nice, but not the driving force for getting stuff done
