[pytest-dev] [core] Tidelift Funding

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Mon 06 May 2019 at 23:58 +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:

> Am 06.05.19 um 16:03 schrieb Bruno Oliveira:
>> Hi Ronny,
>>
>> On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 11:09 AM Ronny Pfannschmidt 
>> <opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de 
>> <mailto:opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     i think its a good idea to have this as a opt-in.
>>
>>     Currently a Fair Share Mechanism on a opt in basis seems fair,
>>     if we ever hit a situation where someone could have a reasonably
>>     set up part/full-time position primarily on pytest we should take
>>     a look at how division is fair in that case.
>>
>>
>> Agreed, thanks Ronny.
>>
>> If nobody objects, I plan to move this forward later this week.
>>
>> One question is how do we track which maintainers are opting to 
>> receive funding.
>
>>
>> I'm thinking of opening an issue which lists the contributors 
>> receiving the funding; maintainers are then free to post a comment 
>> indicating if they want to start/stop receiving funding, at which 
>> point we update the original post. Another option would be to use the 
>> Wiki, but we don't receive change notifications so there's a chance of 
>> we getting out of sync with the configuration on Tidelift. Suggestions?
>>
> we should make a git repo where we track meta level documentation,
> that way we chould have a ci with credentials run the checks

+1 to tracking this in a text file in a vcs repo.

> i wonder if tidelift hasn an api published for that
>
>
>> Another question is regarding admins of the Tidelift dashboard. I 
>> volunteer to do it, but would like more people to also be admins to 
>> reduce the bus factor, so other volunteers are appreciated as well.
>
> in about 2-3 Months i can Commit to such role as well.

If there's no need for the admins to also be paid I'm happy to help the
bus factor there too.

Cheers,
Floris