Opening this post to read your thoughts on the parametrisation of the bounties proposal. I am summarizing below the few opinions read over the weekend in Kusama Direction - please add yours to this thread. 

In general:

- Bounties should span longer periods: the original specification was intended as a governance budget to earmark/budget future expenses. Such budgets should in principle be able to span up to period of a year (or longer but that sounds like a nice upper bound for now). Furthermore, the Council gets to approve everything, so it’d be nice to not be too prescriptive 

- Taken the below into account, bounty duration in the current design is basically just a required heartbeat duration and it doesn't actually describe how long the bounty lives unless the curator disappeared - in the current design you can extend the bounty if needed. 

Parameters: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/1336/files

Original treasury pallet extension discussion post: https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/86 

- People are discussing the length of time that bounties should last.
- Some think that bounties should be able to last up to a year or longer.
- The Council approves everything, so it's important to not be too strict with the time limits.
- The current design allows for bounties to be extended if needed.
- There are links to more information about the discussion if you want to learn more.

#151 On Bounties Spending parameters - A Summary