Does the Qubes community support offering incentives / paid support / bounties on issues?
Assume there would be no objection to
a) posting these in the forum; and
b) arranging payment informally between members
Not expecting the team to have time to support this, just wanted to ask whether there were any objections. Might be a good way to prioritize getting stuff fixed which users care strongly about?
People have paid for support in the past, without any objections.
But someone making a forum account and saying they pay in bitcoin, if someone helps them fix an issue, isn’t the best way to conduct business.
curious, why not?
How about another way? Hiring a dev to work for a fixed term contact only on fixing specific areas of interest?
This may go against their policy:
\ Per-VM encryption · Issue #1293 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub
We don’t try to stop the community from posting and collecting bounties, but our policy is not to implement specific features in exchange for donations
In full: Donate to Qubes | Qubes OS
My read of that is the community can do what they like, but core team won’t prioritize based on donations.
Would you agree?
With my previous reply I was only referring to the devs working on a specific issue. I wasn’t inferring whether or not they’d allow paid support between community members (which seems to happen fairly regularly).
Are you able to introduce me to anyone who is doing paid support, I have a laundry list and not enough time to get it all done myself 
Thanks, yeah, we’re in touch. Might need more than one person due to time constraints though, so please send anyone else my way.