This is not a feature request per se, but the general idea of embracing bounties of adding new features into Home Assistant.
Recently, i found out that the PR i’ve been very interested in was rejected from HA github, because the code was not clean and tidy. I found the original author and in the conversation he said that it is too much hassle for him to rewrite his PR. So i offered him some money for doing that and we’ve made a “gentleman’s agreement” we are both very happy with.
This being said, the whole process was cumbersome (finding a real person based on his github nickname) and awkward (approaching a stranger and offering him money for something). It would be nice to have a more standardised and official ways of funding bounties - and everybody would benefit from that: the project, users and developers.
Home Assistant devs could open Home Assistant “team” on BountySource or similar website.