"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers [LWN.net]

"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

Posted Jul 14, 2022 14:22 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: "Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers by kpfleming
Parent article: "Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

Really? I've browsed through the webpage and I can't work out what they're doing. They're certainly selling a solution, but it's not clear to me what the problem being solved is.

The pricing is clearly aimed at very large businesses, not your run-of-the-mill SME.

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"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

Posted Aug 1, 2022 20:11 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Maybe the Linux Foundation should set up a trade association. If I have a bunch of important dependencies, I sponsor a developer in the association - preferably for one of things that's important to me.

Other companies do the same thing.

But the deal is, if I have a problem with another project, I talk to my developer. Hopefully the developer of the other project is also part of the association, and they fix my problem for me.

You won't then need that many companies involved and - certainly for companies and coders that join - the companies get good support and the coders eat :-)

Cheers,
Wol