With a worker proposal system like this -- is it possible to have the project budget payment held in escrow until a deliverable is received? Or is payment guaranteed as soon as the proposal is voted in?
Only asking because there's, at least in my eyes, a bit of a recurring theme around here of tall promises and people left not getting what they asked for.
Yes, it's possible via an escrow intermediary. In practice, it might be difficult to find competent programmers who will work on those terms, unless they have other paying jobs (assuming we're talking about a programming proposal). But it's not impossible (we were willing to work on that basis to implement our rocksdb proposal).
I guess if project deliverables are never... delivered... then that would likely prevent the worker from winning future contracts. And likely, projects wont get funded unless there seems to be some realistic expectation for successful delivery.
Thanks for the response.