Our Position on Bounties

We believe that bounties can be useful in specific circumstances, but are concerned that the use of bounties within the community could be poisonous to the community. Hearing about studies that show developers who receive bounties for work on an open-source project tend to leave the project sooner makes us concerned that monetary rewards for work may not only erode the altruistic nature of our community, but also drive good developers away from OpenMRS. On the other hand, we do not believe that a one-size-fits-all approach is fair either. Therefore, we prefer to settle on a shared convention for how to share bounties within the community and try to improve those conventions over time as needed to best benefit the community (both developers and implementers).

We prefer that bounties be handled as follows:

Bounties should not be announced or negotiated in community forums.
We create this space for describing the complexities of bounties and our position on them along with any available bounties.

As a community, we need to be continuously re-evaluating ourselves and how we work. To this end, if you feel that our position on bounties could be improved, please do not hesitate to suggest improvements.

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