Problem is that it would still be hard to get funding for bigger maintenance tasks (eg migrate a big OSS project from newtonsoft to system.text.json, etc.)

(Note: I think it was bountysource some years ago but it seems this does not exist anymore, github.com/bountysource...)

Totally agree. There was an external page where you could do that and it integrated into GitHub. But as long as its not a gh first feature it wont get enough attention i suppose

Thx

Pls add me as well (.NET MVP)