[muazzam]

Yet another model that has probably been never used on high scale: letting people sponsor tickets (GitHub issues). The donation would go to the contributor who closes the ticket to the satisfaction of the main contributors. The amount, of course, will be decided by how a ticket is perceived as important.

[OJFord]

What about the satisfaction of the person who raised the issue?

[muazzam]

Of course, I should've added that but that's not the main point.