We're in the final stages of the PyPA becoming an organization that can receive funding via Tidelift (as a fiscal sponsoree of the PSF). We estimate that the PSF may be able to bring in nearly $2K USD per month via this model.
One of the last things we need are a few folks to offer to be designated as "lifters" for the following projects:
- pypa/packaging
- pypa/pip
- pypa/pipenv
- pypa/setuptools
- pypa/setuptools-scm
- pypa/twine
- pypa/virtualenv
- pypa/wheel
Being designated as a "lifter" means that you'll have an account on
tidelift.com and will receive notifications / requests about the project in question. Ideally, at least one person with the commit bit for a given project will be a lifter.
The sort of things Tidelift may ask of us are listed at
https://tidelift.com/about/lifter-tasks. (Note that this page discusses signing a legal agreement, but we don't have to do that as the PSF is entering into this agreement with Tidelift instead.)
I don't imagine the volume of requests here will be very high. (One thing we'll definitely have to do is document a security/vulnerability disclosure policy for all PyPA projects.)
If you're interested, please respond on-list with the project(s) you want to be responsible for.