Instructions are contained in the About page in the web app
Financial incentives to contribute to open source are essentially non-existent, and in the current economic conditions, contributing time for free isn't a viable option for many people.
Many bounty boards already exist, but they are mostly off-chain, and the burden on core maintainers to create/payout these bounties means most teams tend to only bother for large, big ticket items.
Introducing a largely automated solution empowers project teams to add small incentives on most of their core feature requests and bugs, while having low impact on their typical workflow. It also allows open source contributors to be properly rewarded for their contributions.
Given that crypto has a growing culture of large, well funded teams open sourcing their code, offering financial incentive to outside contributors might very boost their number of outside contributions. Allowing them to keep their core team count low, and productive as they scale up.
This project was built for the 2023 Solana Sandstorm hackathon, and therefore, in its current state this project serves mostly as a proof of concept. The contract is deployed to devnet, but the frontend is not currently hosted anywhere. Further features, and quality improvements are required before this project might be productions ready. This is my first crack at writing a complete Solana based application, and I had a lot of fun :).
A completely automated bounty management solution, only requiring a handful of additions to issue, and pull request descriptions, as well as an entry in contributors profile repo README
- Storing private keys in the github secret store is a naive solution. Poses a security threat to project owners funds.
- Using magic strings to handle automation is a brittle solution. Growing my knowledge of Github Apps to offer a more robust UX in the future is desirable
- I am very bad at CSS