On 06/15/2013 02:18 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:25:26AM -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : >> Charles Plessy wrote: >>> In the case of Debian, I share with others the concern of having >>> the packages as a source of revenue >> >> How about making fixed bugs a source of revenue? > > I do not see how to fit this in the PaySwarm model proposed here, > unless there are URLs for billing?
There is a PaySwarm spec called "Payment Intents", which is basically a way to express "If X happens, I want to pay $Y". This can be used to do all sorts of limit-based financial transactions: "If bug 23489 is fixed, I'll pay $5." "If $500 is raised to address bug 32892, I'll put in $10." > In that case, the bounties could accumulate until somebody takes them > by fixing the bug. Have you heard of? https://www.bountysource.com/ Similar model. > We would probably need some review system unless there are easy way > for refunds. The way PaySwarm Payment Intents work is by collecting "promises to pay". When a limit is hit, all the payments go through. The model is similar to KickStarter's all-or-nothing model. However, that model is a bit constrained by the credit card and banking system (holds are put on the funds in certain instances), which PaySwarm is not constrained by. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Meritora - Web payments commercial launch http://blog.meritora.com/launch/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51bd24d6.10...@digitalbazaar.com
