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Given the title, I'm assuming that the amount of money received is on the short side.. So, what should be a good amount for this project? Or in a more general

• mi100hael 10y ago
  For the most part, it's one maintainer keeping this project alive and consuming a fair amount of his time. <$10k seems pretty low for such a substantial product and workload.
• otoburb 10y ago
  The GnuPG's 2015 financial summary (balance sheet and P&L statement)[1] indicates that the author is paying himself an annual regular salary of 47,400 EUR which includes mandatory social insurance, plus some subsidized rent for (only) 2681 EUR. Note that in 2015 GnuPG also had 3 fulltime programmers on payroll for around 160K EUR. The key quote is at the bottom: "Along with the paid projects we are currently working on, the two large donations that we are expecting (from Facebook and Stripe), the Linux Foundation grant, and a small stream of individual donations, g10code will be able to operate with its current staff until the end of 2017. Obviously, we need a longer term plan." (emphasis added) [1] https://gnupg.org/blog/20160421-financial-results-2015.html https://gnupg.org/blog/20160421-financial-results-2015.html
• klodolph 10y ago
  As a rule of thumb, one full-time developer focusing on a project is far, far better than five people putting in one day a week. I'd say the goal depends on the project, but for most projects, I'd expect the goal to (at minimum) pay for the lead developer's salary and the project server costs. Allowing one person to focus their entire work week on a project is a good start.