Surprisingly, I've noticed a different trend. You're right, the math never works out to a comparable tech salary.
But similar to the rest of open source development. People are not purely motivated by money. Developers work on issues all the time with zero financial incentives.
And in the case of bounties, I think that the dollar value becomes a proxy for how much people care about the issue. Especially when several people give in $5, $10 increments. It's a lot better than just clicking the :thumbsup: on an issue.
Sure it doesn't add up to a full time salary. But it's a nice way to triage issues that people value.
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Surprisingly, I've noticed a different trend. You're right, the math never works out to a comparable tech salary.
But similar to the rest of open source development. People are not purely motivated by money. Developers work on issues all the time with zero financial incentives.
And in the case of bounties, I think that the dollar value becomes a proxy for how much people care about the issue. Especially when several people give in $5, $10 increments. It's a lot better than just clicking the :thumbsup: on an issue.
Sure it doesn't add up to a full time salary. But it's a nice way to triage issues that people value.