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https://issuehunt.io/ is a site which enables one to place bounties on Github issues.

BountySource https://www.bountysource.com/ is a similar bounty system, which can front-end a variety of trackers including bugzilla and Github.

If you can't fix it, fund it !

Bountysource is where the real voting happens.

Can we at least get an optional, properly functioning, vsync'ed, tear-free compositor built in to XFCE sometime before the decade is out? That's probably the only reason I don't use XFCE instead of something like KDE or Cinnamon. KDE, Cinnamon, and even the abomination (Gnome 3) have all solved the screen tear problem, but not XFCE.

Yeah, I rant about that occasionally. From Bountysource I found this item planning DRI3 Present support for the compositor. The hypothesis is that it would provide proper vertical backing for application image buffers. Looking at the comments, the code has been in place in Xfwm for quite a while already. Whether it actually works remains to be seen. Was the work finished and tested properly? Is the driver support in place and functional? I certainly still hope that this implementation solves the problem.

The problem remains: it's very likely that other projects just as important as this one are probably facing the same kind of issues, but it would be nice to hear about them before they get in trouble, and not after.

I was thinking if XFCE could use some help? A lot of people like it, but the project seems to be greatly underresourced and the development is very slow. It seems that they have a Bountysource page set up already.

Or, for the less altruistic out there, write tutorials, put them on your own blog and youtube, link them from the project's wiki in a reasonable, completely non-spammy way (e.g. copy the content, attribute it to your blog with a clearly marked external link), and make a dollar or two from advertising.

Or, if you have the money to spend, offer a bounty.

You can put up a bounty for this bug here. Right now, Bountysource accepts only Google Wallet and Paypal, but support for Bitcoins is in the works.

You can put up a bounty for this bug here. Right now, Bountysource accepts only Google Wallet and Paypal, but support for Bitcoins is in the works.

There's an open issue on it, lots of people bitching about current Firefox being broken, but no fixes or response from Google.

Obviously, I need to switch to a different solution,

the only thing obvious here is that firefox is not following the w3c standard.

since I can't force all my volunteers to use a particular browser.

you dont have to force developers to fix an issue but they are much more likely to oblige if you offer them money in return for their services. now if only there was a place where you could do such a thing.

Already been done. BountySource

There's a site that's apparently growing for bounties on open source stuff, too: http://bountysource.com./

You might want to check into a class of crowdfunding sites that exist to fund features in free and open source software. The two main ones I could find are:

https://www.bountysource.com/
https://bountyoss.com/

Zsnes is much more efficient and unless you care how fast the triforce animation spins, is good enough for 99.9% of games.

Here's a list of 100 known bugs with ZSNES, from their site: https://zsnes.bountysource.com/development/bug_report
There are hundreds more not on the list. And there are only about 1,200 unique SNES games. But even going off just the official list, your 0.1% was only off by a factor of 80 or so.

Without double-checking the list, I can tell you right now that Wild Guns has hacks in most emulators.

That game will trigger a DMA past the end of NMI, and immediately toggle NMI on the next instruction for unknown reasons. Because of a hardware edge case, the NMI status is cached one cycle sooner than the next opcode.

Only bsnes and Super Sleuth simulate that delay, the rest hack around it. Without either, the entire in-game screen would flash between the real image and garbage every other frame.

If you want to see a list of ~100 or so known bugs, you could try here: https://zsnes.bountysource.com/development/bug_report

Yes: Bounty Source.

Well, there Bounty Source, but no one seems to really want to put up cash for bounties.

You could always do a code bounty.

Check out Ubuntu Center its a LAMP systems but it should fit your needs https://ubuntucenter.bountysource.com/

...project management system that incorporates bounties into the core of the system. It's run by myself and my buddy Warren. We act as the escrow for all bounties placed in the system, so if it says there X dollars for a request, there truly is.

Think of a SourceForge.net site with bounty handling built-in to tasks (feature requests, bug reports, etc). Also, I'd like to think that we're a bit easier to use from both the project manager's perspective and the end-user's perspective.

We have SVN support and a bunch of other good stuff, and we're adding new features constantly (it's still a "beta" service).
http://bountysource.com/