Open-source bounty

An open-source bounty is a monetary reward for completing a task in an open-source software project.

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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]

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]}

^ Kanda, T.; Guo, M.; Hata, H.; Matsumoto, K. (2017). Towards understanding an open-source bounty: Analysis of bountysource. 2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). IEEE. pp. 577–578.
^ Zhou, J.; Wang, S.; Zhang, H.; Chen, T.H.P.; Hassan, A.E. (2021). "Studying backers and hunters in bounty issue addressing process of open source projects". Empirical Software Engineering. 26 (4). Springer: 1–36. doi:10.1007/s10664-021-09979-z. S2CID 254472802.
^ "The Prettier Challenge". Algora, Public Benefit Corporation. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
^ "Biome formatter wins the Prettier challenge". Biome. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
^ "Bountysource, Education First increase Mozilla WebRTC bounty to a whopping $50,000!". CanYa Blog. 2019-10-08. Archived from the original on 2019-10-08. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
^ Shaun Nichols (30 January 2008). "Sun sets $1 million open source bounty". iTnews.com.au. nextmedia. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
^ Linda Rosencrance (3 August 2004). "Brief: Mozilla offers bounty for bugs". Computerworld. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
^ "Ghostscript: Bug bounty program". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
^ "Amiga.org - Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II) Assigned". Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
^ "Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II)". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
^ "RISC OS Open: All bounties". Retrieved 14 July 2015.

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