One idea could be to create a reward system. Perhaps a
pledge fund could be used to pay developers to resolve bugs. I'm just guessing wildly, but perhaps $50 for Blocker, $40 for Critical, $30 for Major, $20 for Normal, $10 for Minor and $5 for Trivial. Build Issues and Regressions are part of the normal ebb and flow and pay nothing. Possibly $25 per enhancement request. We would need a review committe to ensure bugs are provided a correct status and we'd need some sort of criteria for establishing a bug report status. Otherwise everybody would post bug as Blocker. :-) Indirectly, a reward system might motivate a better response to resolving bugs within the developer's mail list.
I can't find the link - but a project did this with _AWESOME_ results - of course I can't find it. I would put the cash at a lower price though. 50 for blocker, 40 for critical, 20 for Major and Enhancement Requests. 5 for trivial and 1 for every branding fix or something.
The project that did it had good results, with like $2000 dollars they closed a serious amount of bugs, as well as got a lot of people involved in the project who weren't previously.
That requires another funding campaign but I think it would be awesome
Okay, let's keep that idea in our heads....
Darrell