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Comment by chairmansteve

18 days ago

"It's made me realize that the love of money corrupts".

Yep. How about $1 per PR. The submitter gets to choose from a list of charities. No refund if the PR is accepted.

The goal is to get rid of junk PR's. This would work. There could be a central payment system, which any open source project can integrate with. It could accept payment in say India, of the Indian PPP of $1, so you aren't shutting out poorer developers.

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account42  18 days ago

I would not pay any amount of money, even a trivial one, for the privilege of being able to do free work for a project - and I don't think I'm an outlier here.

  • anonymousab  18 days ago

    Another way to think of it is: paying $1 to have your pr and concerns elevated above the supermajority sea (that which will be ai driven contributions). For that cost, it's a steal of the deal.

    Then, from the perspective of "it's a donation to a project you care about" it becomes even more rational. But the project itself getting the money has all the problems others have outlined already, so that idea's a bit bust.

    • KawaiiCyborg  18 days ago

      > "it's a donation to a project you care about"

      But I'm already donating my time by creating a PR, it definitely would disincentivize me to make PRs if I had to also pay in addition to already doing the actual work. Just always such a shame that the good people have to suffer because of the actions of the shitty people...

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  • wongarsu  18 days ago

    Most of my PRs are drive-by PRs: I have an problem, maybe a bug or missing feature, that annoyed me enough to fix it. And because I want to use future versions without the work of maintaining a fork I instead invest the work to upstream the fix. A step that is sometimes more work than the fix itself. At that point I wouldn't mind paying $1 to get that PR looked at and merged.

    But that is not the only type of PR. We clearly need escape hatches for people who engage with a project on a deeper level.

    • chairmansteve  16 days ago

      "We clearly need escape hatches for people who engage with a project on a deeper level".

      Yep. The project maintainer can whitelist those people.