Bugfix Rewards Program

The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) funds a rewards program to thank contributors who improve the reliability and stability of FreeCAD.

The rules are simple: fix 5 reward-eligible issues from the FreeCAD GitHub issue tracker and receive a reward of €250. Here is how this works.

1. To qualify as one of your 5 issues, the issue must be in the tracker and marked with the “Reward Eligible” tag.
2. Submit a pull request for each issue and collaborate with maintainers on potential improvements in your patches.
3. Once you have 5 patches merged within the last 12 weeks, create a new issue in the FPA tracker, include links to 5 qualifying GitHub issues you resolved, and provide links to the commits or pull requests where your fixes were merged.
4. The FPA reviews your submission and does the payout.
5. Submit further reward requests, provided each one involves a new set of qualifying fixes.

There are some limitations that should be mentioned:

• Rewards will not be retroactively granted for PR’s merged before the start of this program .
• Rewards will not be awarded if the qualifying issue was caused by the same person who resolved it. If the issue is older than 6 months, this limitation no longer applies.
• The budget for the program is limited, so the program may be temporarily suspended from time to time if the approved funding is exhausted.
• The “Reward Eligible” tag is assigned by the Maintainers group. You can not mark your own issues as “Reward Eligible”.

To all contributors: keep being awesome!