Open-source bounty
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An open-source bounty is a monetary reward for completing a task in an open-source software project.
Description
Bounties are usually offered as an incentive for fixing software bugs or implementing minor features.[1] Bounty driven development is one of the business models for open-source software.[citation needed] The compensation offered for an open-source bounty is usually small.[2]
Examples of bounties
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- 2023: The Prettier Challenge[3] to write a Rust program that would pass 95% of Prettier test suite was completed within 3 weeks and awarded $22,500 to Biome contributors.[4]
- 2018: Mozilla Firefox's WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications) bug was submitted by Education First to Bountysource for $50,000.[5]
- Sun MicroSystems (now owned by Oracle Corporation) has offered $1 million in bounties for OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenSPARC, GlassFish, OpenOffice.org, and OpenJDK.[6]
- 2004: Mozilla introduced a Security Bug Bounty Program, offering $500 to anyone who finds a "critical" security bug in Mozilla.[7]
- 2015: Artifex Software offers[8] up to $1000 to anyone who fixes some of the issues posted on Ghostscript Bugzilla.
- Two software bounties were completed for the Amiga AROS operating system, producing a free Kickstart ROM replacement for use with the UAE emulator and FPGA Amiga reimplementations, as well as original Amiga hardware.[9][10]
- RISC OS Open bounty scheme to encourage development of RISC OS[11]
- AmiZilla was an over $11,000 bounty to port the Firefox web-browser to AmigaOS, MorphOS & AROS. While the bounty produced little results it inspired many bounty systems in the Amiga community including Timberwolf, Power2people, AROS Bounties, Amigabounty.net and many more.[citation needed]
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