Brief explanation

Provide an issue tracker for overall improvements on the FPGA/ASIC flow with a possibility for the community to vote for issues and potentially offer monetary rewards for implementation/fixes.

Expected results

• Make it easier for newcomers to see where the community currently values contributions most
• Provide a way for the community to finance freelance work to improve parts that may otherwise have trouble to get people contributing, or for projects that are more full-time demanding.

Detailed Explanation

While this ideas repository is nice, it does not allow for effective at-a-glance viewing of issues and projects that need to be improved. Some ideas have PRs and issues cross-linked in them, which is good, and maybe that needs to be the case for an effective tracker - but they are not always project / bounty sized.

One way I visualize this is like how github does issues per project, but also being able to vote on issues and attach bounties.
Having a way to filter by affect software or type of project would probably also be needed, but that is likely doable with any form of tag system.

Further reading

None right now.