# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-05-05 16:02:47
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7305.msg107640#msg107640

I'll brain-dump my second half-baked idea of the day: @p{par}

github has a nice API for basically everything it does (issues getting closed,etc). @p{par}

I've been working on an API for ClearCoin (creating escrow accounts, etc). @p{par}

Marrying the two might work nicely.  Coders could publish their bitcoin addresses in their github profiles. @p{par}

Bounties could be established for bugs (or, grumble, features) by creating a ClearCoin account, linking it to the issue (maybe by posting a machine-readable comment via the github api). @p{par}

And when the issue was closed via a commit the bounty could be automagically paid to the coder(s) who contributed to the commit.  (somehow... via a yet-to-be-written way for ClearCoin to get a where-to-release-coins address that is not set in advance). @p{par}

Reasons not to do it:  allegations of corruption/favoritism if people doing the pulling have to decide between two pull requests.  Maybe less cooperation to find/fix things if people are competing for bounties. @p{brk}