1

There is a bug in Ubuntu that has been bugging me for quite a while -- and it has been bugging others for years.

I'm pretty sure a substantial amount of money could be raised to pay to get the bug fixed but but don't know the best way of doing this.

Is there an existing system to fund an "Ubuntu Bug Fix Bounty"? If not, has anything remotely like this been done? If so, how?

Note: This is not a question about how to report bugs. It is a question that recognizes the existing triage policies of Canonical and others may not adequately serve some users.

James Bowery
  • 667

1 Answers1

5

There is no 'bug bounty' system in Ubuntu, and setting up such a system would be a Canonical driven thing. However, most of the software in Ubuntu is not actually fixable in Ubuntu without first being fixed or addressed upstream, which means you should really be paying the developers for the software that the bug is in to fix things, not Ubuntu. Most if not all fixes for bugs in Ubuntu originate at the upstream projects, not within Ubuntu itself.

Thomas Ward
  • 78,878