Faster issues resolution

[PavolRepisky]

Goals

I’m exploring ways to make it easier for open-source maintainers and companies to get issues solved faster.

Non-Goals

This is not about replacing sponsorship, donations, or existing funding models.

Background

Often, important issues stay open for a long time because contributors don’t have the bandwidth. It would be great if we could pay for some of the issues to be solved. I came up with an idea for how to do this and would like to validate it.

Proposal

Open-source maintainers could create bounties on some of the issues for contributors to solve for money. The bounty creation process would be integrated right in GitHub issues, and the bounties would be listed on an external platform for contributors to pick and work on.

Could something like this work?