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All the alternatives to BountySource seem to be coupled with GitHub, which is rather non-optimal:

https://gitpay.me/

https://issuehunt.io/

https://gitcoin.co/landing

https://tip4commit.com/

Is there any actively-maintained FOSS bounty platform without the GitHub dependency?

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hi from gitcoin. (https://gitcoin.co/mission)

our bounties platform is coupled to github, but grants/tips/other tools are not.

we plan to decouple from github eventually. until then, the workaround is to post a gitlab repo into a github issue and bounty that.

any other questions lmk

Are you planning to support Bugzilla instances?

its on the roadmap, cant say how far out tho

Not a bounty platform, but https://polyglot.network/ is a a FOSS development agency that might be more comfortable to deal with for CTOs. They work with both in-house developers and freelancers who work on FOSS.

Gitpay also appears to work with Bitbucket.

What's wrong with GitHub?

Many of us prefer using open source software to develop our open source software. GitHub is not open source.

In addition to the reasons GitHub is "bad", people may just prefer to use other hosting platforms.

> In addition to the reasons GitHub is "bad"

Reasons such as?

The fact that it is closed source and owned by Microsoft.

Our bugs are in a self-hosted Bugzilla: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/

Possibly nothing. However, we don't want a dependency on one hosting provider. As we see with bounty source, any system can turn.

Not all projects use Github.

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