[andrewgjohnson]

I like the idea of prepaying bit coins on bounties [presumably tied to an issue/bug report in GitHub] which is what I thought this was at first. As is seems a bit confusing, are all commits treated equally? I'd be peeved if I donated money then saw it get split up among people who did minor clean up, typo fixes, etc. Flip side, I'd be peeved if I spent a bunch of time on a commit then saw the same money go to someone doing a typo fix level commit.

Don't know if the whole intrinsic/extrinsic motivations factor will make this idea crater in any form but I think tweaking the current model is advisable in any case.

Best of luck.

[arsenische]

You are right. But it is not a salary, it is just a tip. If developer spent time to make even a tiny useful commit - that is good. Probably with time it will become harder to find tiny commits. And donations will probably keep accumulating thus creating higher incentive for more complex commits.

[andrewgjohnson]

I think your assumptions are incorrect.

[btbuildem]

Especially that the payout is higher for earlier commits, and easy fruit gets picked first.. chances are the hard bugs would not get fixed (or to be an optimist: this would identify what the hard bugs are) and the owner could put an explicit bounty on each of those.