On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 at 19:16, Dustin Ingram <di@python.org> wrote:
Yes, the main goal of making the PyPA a fiscal sponsoree of the PSF was so that we could accept sponsorships/funding via Tidelift and GitHub Sponsors. The Pallets project is similarly a fiscal sponsoree of the PSF and accepts funding via Tidelift and GitHub Sponsors in the same fashion.
Cool, I did remember the fiscal sponsorship discussion, but I wasn't aware of the link to Tidelift. I don't know what the pip project's view is on whether we'd want to be considered a tidelift project, and my concern is that there's an implied assumption here that pip *would* be under tidelift. Personally, I'd have to understand better what this meant in terms of what the pip project might be committing to if we were under tidelift. I'm not (to my knowledge) in Ian's position where I'd have legal problems, but I do feel the need to defend rather strongly my right to simply not do certain things, because I'm a volunteer - and as such, being "asked to do stuff" by Tidelift is something I need to consider quite carefully. I'm certainly not willing to be a "lifter" for pip in the sense of being a named person taking on any Tidelift commitments. Paul PS I'm deliberately not commenting on the topic of actual money right now, as I'm currently too tired to think about how I feel about that.