Michael V. Franklin wrote:
In fact, you might want to propose matching bounty from the community on this specific bug to encourage funding. For example, make an announcement on the forum that anyone who places a bounty on the bug in question will receive a matching contribution from you. Maybe that might raise the bounty high enough to get someone qualified to fix the bug. Or maybe not; it's just an idea that occurred to me.
judging from my several decades of expirience, bounties almost never works. there are alot of reasons for that, but the fact still stands: it is *almost* impossible to make something happen with boundy. it may work by accident ;-), but i myself wouldn't count on that. either bounty is too small ("hey, my time worth much more! i'd better spend it playing videogames!"), or it is too big ("hey, this is a Really Huge Problem, if somebody wants to pay than much! that means that i'll inevitably spend more time on that, and... the bounty is too small. oops." ;-).
but one can hire a contractor to fix some specific problem. this is much easier, and almost usually works as people expected: there are clearly specified goals, a payment, a timeline and such. both parties know what exactly they want, and can control the whole process.
