It would be great to allow sponsoring of issues, for instance through Paypal. Users can then sponsor issues they find crucial, to potentially speed up development on the issue. See Mantis (http://www.mantisbt.org/) for an example of an issue/bugtracker that supports this feature.

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robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

I'm just curious - how would it work? Would people just donate money and hope that the work gets done? Whom would the money go to? Or would people promise money in return for issues/code/features? If so, who guarantees that they pay? How do you decide who gets the money? Sometimes many developers take part in implementing a feature. Without a real workflow solution to these problems the best we can really think about doing is a tip-jar for drupal.org in general, but this has its problems too. Who controls the money? How should it be spent? And so forth....

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grohk commented

I, for one, think this would be a valuable feature. It might facilitate bug fixes for less used features.

For instance, I use the comment modules moderation feature and have filed a bug report on it months ago. I cannot code myself, but I would pay to have this issue addressed. But without a carrot in front of someone, my issue will continue to languish. But if I could assign a bounty to this issue, perhaps someone would take it on.

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jasonwhat commented
Title: Allow sponsoring of issues » another perfect use for donorge

With donorge and the donation module you can set very specific goals for what is needed for the module and display all the info. on your own site, or here on the Drupal site if they enabled it. There are a ton of cool features that I won't go all into here, but DA is enabled so login and create the item and try it out. http://donorge.org

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killes@www.drop.org commented
Title: another perfect use for donorge » Allow sponsoring of issues

Changing title back

aclight’s picture

aclight commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I don't think that this kind of functionality belongs in the project module. It'd probably be best either in drupal.org module (if it's written just for drupal.org) or in a separate contrib module.