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There's some talk of trying to figure out funding stuff, though none of it is super organized yet. I personally set up a GitHub sponsors profile and a couple fo
by zenhack 7y ago
There's some talk of trying to figure out funding stuff, though none of it is super organized yet. I personally set up a GitHub sponsors profile and a couple folks are donating. I could see us getting organized enough to scrounge up money for at least one person but we'll see.
But, even without that, I do think there's a reason to be hopeful that this is more than a momentary stir. The company shut down so suddenly and without really on-boarding new contributors, and I think much of the problem was that of getting over the hump of "all of the people who've worked heavily on this codebase disappeared at once." I think it might not have stalled in the first place if there were a couple folks outside the company who had been doing regular work on the platform. I still feel like our bus factor is a little low wrt to hacking on core, but I'm hopeful that we can get to a point where there's enough shared knowledge that we won't end up in quite that kind of slump again.
- hobofan 7y agoYeah, you are probably right. Building up a bigger bus factor, and some momentum are probably more important than going at it again with full swing. I wish you the best of luck, and really hope that Sandstorm succeeds! Thanks for putting in the effort!