<story><title>An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake</title><url>http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=20786</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>famousactress</author><text>I think gittip is great, and I understand this is the opposite of their philosophy, but I want a well-used bounty program for these things.&lt;p&gt;I mentioned some Django bugs that are huge for us that were finally fixed in 1.6 in another thread [1]. I&amp;#x27;d have personally pledged a couple hundred dollars to have them fixed, and probably could have gotten considerably more pledged from my company. Does this tool&amp;#x2F;platform exist and I just don&amp;#x27;t know about it?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958281&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=5958281&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Edit]&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the replies. Pledgie and bountysource look interesting and I suppose really close to what I was imagining, in spirit. Fundamentally, I&amp;#x27;d like to see something well-executed help formalize the process behind what motivated Andrew&amp;#x27;s awesome Django migrations kickstarter [2]. I really like the way that came together because it had the buy-in of the team, and there-by inspired confidence in potential backers.&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;andrewgodwin&amp;#x2F;schema-migr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonylampada</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http://freedomsponsors.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freedomsponsors.org&lt;/a&gt; is a crowdfunding platform for Open Source projects.&lt;p&gt;This is how it works:&lt;p&gt;1) Someone places a bounty for a problem (tipically an issue registered on an issue tracker)&lt;p&gt;2) More people might want to sponsor the same issue&lt;p&gt;3) A developer solves the issue&lt;p&gt;4) The sponsors verify the solution and pay the developer&lt;p&gt;The FreedomSponsors website itself is an open source web application, written in Django.
Funny fact - some of its own issues have been sponsored in the website.&lt;p&gt;The source code - along with instructions on how to run it - can be found on Github.
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;freedomsponsors&amp;#x2F;www.freedomsponsors.org&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake</title><url>http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=20786</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>famousactress</author><text>I think gittip is great, and I understand this is the opposite of their philosophy, but I want a well-used bounty program for these things.&lt;p&gt;I mentioned some Django bugs that are huge for us that were finally fixed in 1.6 in another thread [1]. I&amp;#x27;d have personally pledged a couple hundred dollars to have them fixed, and probably could have gotten considerably more pledged from my company. Does this tool&amp;#x2F;platform exist and I just don&amp;#x27;t know about it?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958281&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=5958281&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Edit]&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the replies. Pledgie and bountysource look interesting and I suppose really close to what I was imagining, in spirit. Fundamentally, I&amp;#x27;d like to see something well-executed help formalize the process behind what motivated Andrew&amp;#x27;s awesome Django migrations kickstarter [2]. I really like the way that came together because it had the buy-in of the team, and there-by inspired confidence in potential backers.&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;andrewgodwin&amp;#x2F;schema-migr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarbazqux</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not convinced Oracle (ORCL), listed on both the S&amp;amp;P-500 and the NASDAQ-100, needs or will accept bug fixing donations, especially since MySQL is a competitor to their flagship Oracle DB and there was quite a lot of disgruntlement around the acquisition.  Maybe if you gave money to MariaDB it would work.</text></comment>