Hi all We are fortunate to be part of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and even more fortunate to receive donations from Thinkst [1] and from various organizations via Tidelift and GitHub Sponsors [2]. Summary: * At the start of 2024, cash on hand for the Twisted project was at ~$27,000 USD. * We plan to have Glyph as a paid maintainer, 5 hours a week at $100/hour. * Work will focus on code review, merge of PRs, documentation * The paid maintainer will keep the community updated on the progress via blog posts. * Anyone is invited to decide the future of the Twisted project -------- At this point only I and Glyph were involved in the discussions / decision making with the PSF. I know that the communication was not ideal. We have quarterly meetings with the PSF. If anyone wants to participate, let us know and we will ask PSF to send you an invitation for the next meeting The next meeting is scheduled for 7th of July, 16:00 UTC. ------------- We plan to spend that money to pay for a maintainer, 5 hours a week at $100/hour, not to exceed our current budget. The plan is to use the majority of the time to do reviews and merge any PRs that are very close to the point where they can be merged. The maintainer will write a public report / blog post that will support the person/people reviewing/approving the invoices. In this regard, the paid maintainer will also do a bit of community management work. Glyph has agreed to start working as a paid maintainer and he is available starting with June 2025 -------------- I wish that in the near future we can increase the number of sponsors and the number of paid maintainers. For now the only maintainer that expressed the desire to help with paid maintainer work was Glyph. If you would like to work as a paid maintainer, let us know. For now, the only public sponsors are Thinks and SFTPPlus [3] To disclose, I partially own SFTPPlus. If anyone has any suggestions or comments, please let us know. Cheers [1] https://thinkst.com/ [2] https://github.com/sponsors/twisted [3] https://www.sftpplus.com/ -- Adi Roiban
By his activity Glyph seems a great candidate. It’s really great news! Twisted should live and grow! Regards, Taroved On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM Adi Roiban via Twisted <twisted@python.org> wrote:
Hi all
We are fortunate to be part of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and even more fortunate to receive donations from Thinkst [1] and from various organizations via Tidelift and GitHub Sponsors [2].
Summary: * At the start of 2024, cash on hand for the Twisted project was at ~$27,000 USD. * We plan to have Glyph as a paid maintainer, 5 hours a week at $100/hour. * Work will focus on code review, merge of PRs, documentation * The paid maintainer will keep the community updated on the progress via blog posts. * Anyone is invited to decide the future of the Twisted project
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At this point only I and Glyph were involved in the discussions / decision making with the PSF. I know that the communication was not ideal. We have quarterly meetings with the PSF. If anyone wants to participate, let us know and we will ask PSF to send you an invitation for the next meeting The next meeting is scheduled for 7th of July, 16:00 UTC.
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We plan to spend that money to pay for a maintainer, 5 hours a week at $100/hour, not to exceed our current budget.
The plan is to use the majority of the time to do reviews and merge any PRs that are very close to the point where they can be merged.
The maintainer will write a public report / blog post that will support the person/people reviewing/approving the invoices.
In this regard, the paid maintainer will also do a bit of community management work.
Glyph has agreed to start working as a paid maintainer and he is available starting with June 2025
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I wish that in the near future we can increase the number of sponsors and the number of paid maintainers. For now the only maintainer that expressed the desire to help with paid maintainer work was Glyph. If you would like to work as a paid maintainer, let us know. For now, the only public sponsors are Thinks and SFTPPlus [3]
To disclose, I partially own SFTPPlus.
If anyone has any suggestions or comments, please let us know.
Cheers
[1] https://thinkst.com/ [2] https://github.com/sponsors/twisted [3] https://www.sftpplus.com/ -- Adi Roiban _______________________________________________ Twisted mailing list -- twisted@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to twisted-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/twisted.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/twisted@python.org/message/FZSXKDHAOZW... Code of Conduct: https://twisted.org/conduct
On Apr 27, 2025, at 10:47 AM, Alexandr Nesterenko via Twisted <twisted@python.org> wrote:
By his activity Glyph seems a great candidate. It’s really great news! Twisted should live and grow!
Thanks for the vote of confidence! I'm looking forward to actually spending some of this money to help the project :)
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:41:19PM +0100, Adi Roiban via Twisted wrote:
I wish that in the near future we can increase the number of sponsors and the number of paid maintainers. For now the only maintainer that expressed the desire to help with paid maintainer work was Glyph. If you would like to work as a paid maintainer, let us know.
I haven't been terribly active in Twisted since I left Canonical (and before that I was really only active in areas that affected Launchpad). All the same, I'm a pretty experienced Python developer and open source maintainer, I know my way around Twisted to some extent, and these days I'm set up for freelancing. If it should be helpful, I'm in a position where I could spend a few hours a week on this sort of thing. If there's a queue of more active people, though, I should definitely go to the back of it! -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
Hi Colin Thanks for the message and sorry for the late reply. On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 at 13:38, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
I wish that in the near future we can increase the number of sponsors and the number of paid maintainers. For now the only maintainer that expressed the desire to help with paid maintainer work was Glyph. If you would like to work as a paid
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:41:19PM +0100, Adi Roiban via Twisted wrote: maintainer,
let us know.
I haven't been terribly active in Twisted since I left Canonical (and before that I was really only active in areas that affected Launchpad). All the same, I'm a pretty experienced Python developer and open source maintainer, I know my way around Twisted to some extent, and these days I'm set up for freelancing. If it should be helpful, I'm in a position where I could spend a few hours a week on this sort of thing.
If there's a queue of more active people, though, I should definitely go
to the back of it!
I don't think there is any queue. Glyph was the only one that offered to help so far. I will try to follow up with Glyph and Python Software Foundation to see how we can get start doing some paid work. Thanks again -- Adi Roiban
if it’s a question of offering, I’ve been out of work looking for any paid position. I’m willing to negotiate on hours and rate. I don’t have links to my work offhand, but it is on github, and I think folks recognize my name. hab On Fri, May 9, 2025, at 16:37, Adi Roiban via Twisted wrote:
Hi Colin
Thanks for the message and sorry for the late reply.
On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 at 13:38, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:41:19PM +0100, Adi Roiban via Twisted wrote:
I wish that in the near future we can increase the number of sponsors and the number of paid maintainers. For now the only maintainer that expressed the desire to help with paid maintainer work was Glyph. If you would like to work as a paid maintainer, let us know.
I haven't been terribly active in Twisted since I left Canonical (and before that I was really only active in areas that affected Launchpad). All the same, I'm a pretty experienced Python developer and open source maintainer, I know my way around Twisted to some extent, and these days I'm set up for freelancing. If it should be helpful, I'm in a position where I could spend a few hours a week on this sort of thing.
If there's a queue of more active people, though, I should definitely go to the back of it!
I don't think there is any queue. Glyph was the only one that offered to help so far.
I will try to follow up with Glyph and Python Software Foundation to see how we can get start doing some paid work.
Thanks again -- Adi Roiban _______________________________________________ Twisted mailing list -- twisted@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to twisted-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/twisted.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/twisted@python.org/message/7SVOX2WCMU7... Code of Conduct: https://twisted.org/conduct
On May 9, 2025, at 7:28 PM, hab <_@habnab.it> wrote:
if it’s a question of offering, I’ve been out of work looking for any paid position. I’m willing to negotiate on hours and rate. I don’t have links to my work offhand, but it is on github, and I think folks recognize my name.
hab
We are only looking at about 5 hours a week total at this point, so it's not quite a "paid position", but it might be a good thing to rotate the responsibility among multiple folks. Would it be worthwhile to you to take on little bits of work like that? -g
On Apr 29, 2025, at 5:17 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:41:19PM +0100, Adi Roiban via Twisted wrote:
I wish that in the near future we can increase the number of sponsors and the number of paid maintainers. For now the only maintainer that expressed the desire to help with paid maintainer work was Glyph. If you would like to work as a paid maintainer, let us know.
I haven't been terribly active in Twisted since I left Canonical (and before that I was really only active in areas that affected Launchpad). All the same, I'm a pretty experienced Python developer and open source maintainer, I know my way around Twisted to some extent, and these days I'm set up for freelancing. If it should be helpful, I'm in a position where I could spend a few hours a week on this sort of thing.
If there's a queue of more active people, though, I should definitely go to the back of it!
Thanks for volunteering! Having multiple folks in the queue here will be helpful, as my delay in responding indicates, sometimes my own availability is a bit constrained :). -g
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Adi Roiban -
Alexandr Nesterenko -
Colin Watson -
glyph＠twistedmatrix.com -
hab