As a maintainer of a few open-source projects, some funded & some unfunded — this is a v interesting development. I'm excited to see how this goes and I really hope it's successful.

Some concerns that I've considered before around this model (no need to address them all):

- How has adding this incentive changed the community?

- Do you get worse quality contributions because people are doing it for the money?

- Are non-funded items neglected?

- Do people argue over whether an issue is fully closed?

- Is it more of a challenge to craft issues with a tight spec?

These are all great questions! Our team is collecting feedback and our own experience and hoping to publish a retrospective some time down the line about how things are going. Stay tuned!

I'm not really clear on how to find out what issues have currently active bounties attached to them. I followed some links to this github query: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ai...

but all I see there are issues that appear to have already been paid for.

If the issue is open it hasn't been paid for, we close issues when their completed. Let me know if you have other questions.

I find the language "Paid: $___" confusing because it is past tense and reads like the task has been completed. I suggest changing it to "Will Pay" or "Bounty"

You're right, this language is confusing. We'll change the names of the labels to be more clear.