Incentive

[C.J. Collier]

While I'm making suggestions, I suggest that bug bounties be
implemented.

I'm working on building a decentralized global karma system, and I'd
love to get it into Bugzilla.  It's still in early development, but I
think it will be a useful tool for exchange of appreciation or demarking
work that would be appreciated.

http://www.gnubucks.com/

I suggest allowing bug reporters to tack an appreciation on to the bugs
they report.  When developers mark a bug as resolved, those who attached
potential karma points to the bug in question will be contacted and
asked to verify that the bug fix works for them.  When this step is
completed, the karma points are assigned to the developer(s?) who fixed
the bug.

If the bug depends on other bugs, the assigned karma points could be
distributed down the chain.  Say bug D depends on bug C & B, where B
depends on A.  A user assigns 1000 karma points to bug D.  500 stick to
D and 250 flow to C & B each.  Since B depends on A, B keeps 125 and A
gets 125.  Thus the final application of karma points looks like this:

D: 500
C: 250
B: 125
A: 125

Of course the distribution can be tweaked.

Thoughts?

Since this is a dev mailing list, could someone tell me where to start
if I were interested in implementing this myself (which I am ;)?

Cheers,

C.J.