Bounties in Open Source Software on GitHub

Due to the voluntary nature of the open source software, it can be hard to find a developer to work on a particular task. For example, some issue reports may be too cumbersome and unexciting for someone to volunteer to do them, yet these issue reports may be of high priority to the success of software. To provide an incentive for implementing such issue reports, one can offer a monetary reward, i.e., a bounty, to the developer who completes that particular task.
In this project, we study bounties in open source software on GitHub to better understand how bounties can be leveraged to evolve such softwares in terms of addressing issue reports.

Faculty Supervisor:

Ahmed E. Hassan

Student:

Partner:

Kyushu University

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

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