Hello everyone! I'm an author of TLSharp (https://github.com/sochix/TLSharp) - open source Telegram library. I got a lot of issues from users on my GitHub profile. At the very first time, I tried to answer everyone and help with project. But as time goes, I got annoyed by it. Also there is a lot of silly question, not connected to library development.<p>I noticed that it's a common problem of open-source projects on GitHub. After some time contributor got annoyed/not interested in working with community.<p>I decided, that some small amount of money to answer a question or help user using your library is a win-win for user and the OSS project.<p>Do you know any way to monetize GitHubs issues?
I looked into something similar (albeit briefly) and found BountySource, which is <i>almost</i> what I wanted: <a href="https://www.bountysource.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bountysource.com/</a><p>Preferably, like you, I'd rather this be user-oriented, like a kickstarter for features or issues, rather than just paying developers for implementations, but I will confess I didn't look at BountySource too closely. Perhaps it would fit both our needs.
Signal has a pay-per-PR system that might be just want you want.
<a href="https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/" rel="nofollow">https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/</a>
I reckon what you suggest is not a bad idea: when someone posts an issue that you do not particularly feel like working on, set a price on it! When/if anyone pays, you work on it.<p>Or someone else can come in and say "I'll do it for X".<p>Most successful projects that I know of are those where the developer is actually getting paid for his work. QGIS is a great example.
I suggest you looking into Gratipay. It's a service that's in progress that allow for contributors of FOSS software to get paid for their contributions.
I work in a blockchain company and I'm building a tool that allows users to vote on pull requests to be merged to github, all done on the blockchain.<p>Naturally reading this has spun some ideas in my mind - it would be cool to build a system where people are incentivized to respond to issues, and having it on the blockchain removes a lot of the trust issues that comes along with payouts and rewards.<p>Any thoughts on this?
That's not going to go well. If you aren't motivated working on it for free, then consider trying to find someone who can take over maintainership.