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Why your $10 matters this month

Historically, Bugzilla grew because companies that used it let their developers contribute improvements upstream.

That is much less common now. Many teams customize private copies for short-term speed and never contribute those changes back, which leaves the public project with less ongoing development capacity. (If your company uses Bugzilla and can spare a few developer hours each week, we would love that help, too.)

That is why we are raising recurring funding to support a part-time developer and keep core Bugzilla work moving forward.

Thanks to our Sponsors!

The following people or companies are sponsoring us for $150 or more per month:

Where does your money get spent?

All monetary amounts listed on this page are in US Dollars (USD).

Amounts last updated 2026/03/20.

Keeping the Lights On

The project currently has a number of operational expenses before we even get to funding developers. This includes hosting 3 servers in Linode, our annual filing fees both with the IRS and with the State of Michigan, domain registrations, and non-profit corporation liability insurance.

This currently averages $113 per month, and is funded first from recurring donations before that money can be used towards development.

Funding Development

Permanent developer

Our pie-in-the-sky goal right now is to have a permanent part-time developer to work around 20 hours per per week on Bugzilla on whatever needs doing, such as triaging bug reports, reviewing patches from volunteer contributors, and coding of high priority patches, and not just one-off projects. To do this, we anticipate needing about $4000 per month in recurring donations. Until this goal is met, the balance will be contributed to the general project fund each month (see below). Once the permanant developer goal is hit, then a permanent developer will be hired, instead.

Single-month recurring donations exceeding the above "keeping the lights on" expenses:

Sponsor Us with a monthly contribution towards this goal at GitHub Sponsors (GitHub account required).

Sponsor Us with a monthly contribution towards this goal at Liberapay using any payment type Stripe will accept (credit, debit, etc). Stripe will deduct 2.9% + 30¢ from your contribution each month as a transaction fee.

General project fund

Any money contributed to this fund will be used towards hiring a developer to work on code or review submitted patches for one-off projects. Once enough money collects to be worth funding a project, we'll have someone work on it.

Current projects we want to fund:

Future projects will be decided once we get Bugzilla 6 released. There is also a possibility that Bugzilla 6 will require additional grants to complete.

Money currently available towards our next project (TBD) :

Contribute towards this goal at GitHub Sponsors (GitHub account required).

Contribute towards this goal via Stripe (credit, debit, Apple Pay, CashApp). Stripe will deduct 2.9% + 30¢ from your contribution as a transaction fee.

If you give via Stripe and want to cover the fee (completely optional), here's the formula: Take the amount you want us to get, add 30¢, then divide by 0.971. For example, if you want us to get $100, add 30¢ to make 100.30, then divide by 0.971 and round it to two places after the decimal, which gives you $103.30. To verify it, subtract 2.9% to get 100.3043, round to two digits after the decimal to get 100.30, then subtract 30¢ to get $100.

The Legal Stuff

In mid-2023, a group of the core developers formed Zarro Boogs Corporation (ZBC) in order to be a legal entity which could hold the license to the Bugzilla Trademark and raise money on behalf of the project. ZBC is a non-charitable non-profit organization (US Internal Revenue Code §501(c)(4) status), and registered as a Non-Profit Corporation in the State of Michigan, which means we are required to spend all money raised on the needs of the project, and not make a profit on it. However, since we are not a charity, your donations will not be tax deductible. The Bugzilla trademarks are used under license from the Mozilla Foundation. ZBC is not affiliated with or owned by the Mozilla Foundation.