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Economic incentive to participate and propose issue for open source development
Open source projects today are controlled by only few developers rest of the volunteers only submit bugs and work on periphery. We propose a voting mechanism for proposing issue and features as well as PR's from relatively new developers if the users approved the ISSUE, FEATURE , PR etc. it can be taken to next steps in further development. Open source project will create a voting smart contract and provides it with some funds locked in as an economic incentive to the fellow developers/voters. In return the amount of monetary funds will be available to winning side (yes or no)as a reward. Expecting participants to reach an economic equilibrium.
For example, if an Open source project git issue offers a reward to voters of 1 ETH in order to be merged or propose a new feature, and in a period of 10 days the voters send a total of 10 ETH, of which 6 ETH went to the Yes vote, the winners get their 6 ETH back plus the 95% of the reward, 0.95 ETH.
In financial terms, winning voters get a 15.8% return on investment voting on the Issue/PR. Losers get their 4 ETH plus 0.05 ETH , receiving a 1,2% return. This return is computed for the voting period of 10 days, which is the period when the project proposal is being voted on by developers/peer.
Project Maintainer Contributor Normal user(this user usually participate because of interest but have no incentive to make real contributions )
Godzillion: A Decentralized Startup Crowdfunding System https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40162-1_44 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-6451.00174