AFAIK jaraco has been a lifter for setuptools for the last two or three years. He's even got some automation for auto-uploading release note there. Does it really need more lifters?
Probably not, although I'm curious where the funds are currently if that's the case. +Jason R. Coombs, can you chime in?
I have one kinda-major concern with how Tidelift tracks and counts dependencies. Unless they’ve changed something in their pipeline recently, basically all of our projects are significantly underreported by their pipelines.
I absolutely agree (even with the latest estimates) and I have also
raised this with them directly as part of the process. I also raised
the fact that all of the projects they support have an implicit
dependency on things like PyPI, which they are currently unable to
support, but are interested in supporting. I'll re-raise this again
when I get back to them with this list of lifters as well.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:59 AM Ian Stapleton Cordasco
To be clear, I don't see myself as critical to Twine. If I were, that would be a huge issue.
Brian does an excellent job and Jason is available to help a lot of the time. Regardless, I have meeting with senior legal counsel for my employer Friday. So I'll know more then.
All of this is to say, go ahead. I'll know more about whether I'm still a maintainer this weekend.
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 14:56 Dustin Ingram
wrote: I don't think this is much different than the PSF accepting funding from organizations like CZI on behalf of projects like pip, but I would definitely recommend checking with your employer. We can just exclude twine from this for now, I'd hate to potentially lose you as a maintainer.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 2:52 PM Ian Stapleton Cordasco
wrote: That's what I thought but our legal team is somewhat ... aggressively against any appearance of outside business activity
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 14:49 Dustin Ingram
wrote: Correct, all funds would go to the PSF, earmarked for the PyPA to distribute as it sees necessary. You would not be required to receive funding as a lifter.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 2:41 PM Bernat Gabor
wrote: I'm in the same position, but I had the impression that in this case you'll not receive any compensation. Instead the Tidelift value gets donated to PSF. So the way I see you're not getting any compensation if you sign up for it. I might be missing here something though,
Bernat
I need to check with my employer but it's likely this will cause me to have to resign from twine as a maintainer. My contract disallows me from receiving any compensation for F/OSS work and this will likely look an awful like that to the folks in legal. Sent from my phone with my typo-happy thumbs. Please excuse my brevity