chore: add Financial Contributions section to GOVERNANCE #2693
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| Compared to sponsorship, bounties come with a few risks, both for Biome as a project, as well as the persons or entities offering and collecting the bounty. To minimize these risks, we only sanction bounties under the following conditions: | ||
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| - Bounties must be pledged through Polar.sh on an issue that is opened in our issue tracker. | ||
| - Unless otherwise specified, Biome reserves 30% of the payment amount, meaning contributors receive 70% of the pledged amount. |
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Do you know if 70/30 is the usual amount for bounties?
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To be honest, I don't. I would be leaning to either 70/30 or 80/20, but it's hard to say which should be preferred. And the range as a whole is more a gut-feeling than anything.
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We can add a new phrase saying that we reserve the right to change the percentage based on the amount of time Maintainers and Core contributors would need to spend coaching the contributors and reviewing the PRs.
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Added two more rules:
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| To learn more about sponsorship incentives, or to make a donation, please visit our [Open Collective page](https://opencollective.com/biome). | ||
| You can also sponsor the project through [GitHub](https://github.com/sponsors/biomejs). | ||
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| ### Community-Funded Bounties |
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This is a personal preference, but I don't like the term "Bounty". I am more keen to use the term "project" or "issue":
- that's Polar's terminology
- we already identified "bounties" that aren't small things, but are big features that require time and work to complete
As far as I've seen out there, bounties are just for "small" things that contributors can easily achieve.
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I'm not sure if there's a better alternative, but the words "issue" and "project" are already used for units of work, which may or may not be funded. The word "bounty" unambiguously clarifies there's a financial reward for a unit of work. The Polar terminology makes sense within their realm, since the platform is all about funding, so they differentiate "issues" from other financial transactions, but applying that terminology to Biome would be more confusing than helpful, I think.
I don't think there's an implication that bounties should only be for small things. That should be reflected in the pledged amount instead. But I do think issues with a bounty attached shouldn't become too big, hence the $1000 maximum. If a task is so large we feel $1000 doesn't cover the effort, it would be better to split it into multiple tasks with separate bounties.
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I can change the header, yes. But the word bounty is used all-over the place in this doc, and using the full phrase "Community-funded issue" everywhere seems quite burdensome. Assuming we don't want to ban the word bounty altogether, I'm not a fan of changing the header either, since it would only create a disconnect between the terminology used.
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Summary
This is my first attempt at adding a section for Financial Contributions to the GOVERNANCE document. Feedback very much welcome!
Test plan
Members of the @biomejs/core-contributors need to approve the changes