Bounties work best when the work is well scoped and easy to verify. A lot of work, like code review, isn't well scoped nor easy to verify. Also The Nature of the Firm.
I didn't spend more than a day cooking SN's repo bounty system, but I spent long enough to conclude it's at least very non-trivial to create a system that produces results comparable to a tenured team.
Bounties work best when the work is well scoped and easy to verify. A lot of work, like code review, isn't well scoped nor easy to verify. Also The Nature of the Firm.
I didn't spend more than a day cooking SN's repo bounty system, but I spent long enough to conclude it's at least very non-trivial to create a system that produces results comparable to a tenured team.