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What about FOSS one knows well and can support but hasn't coded for? Like, I'm real good at Samba and GlusterFS and Hylafax - and/or they may not even be on Git

What about FOSS one knows well and can support but hasn't coded for? Like, I'm real good at Samba and GlusterFS and Hylafax - and/or they may not even be on GitHub? Excellent work here, going in the right direction.

pabs3 4y ago
If you are really good at Samba, join their commercial support providers list. Lots of big projects have similar things. https://www.samba.org/samba/support/ https://www.samba.org/samba/support/ Edit: GlusterFS has one too: https://www.gluster.org/community/consultants/ https://www.gluster.org/community/consultants/ Edit: unfortunately iFAX doesn't list other companies on the HylaFAX support page, but probably being active on their community support could get customers. https://www.hylafax.org/support/ https://www.hylafax.org/support/
- djbusby 4y ago
  I am, and do. I'm wondering what Ringer will do for these kind of case. Or if Ringer is only for GitHub libraries, or smaller projects or...
mintone 4y ago
Hey! So this is something that we are really interested in, and want to support. I've had about a dozen conversations about this, especially where someone has created packages for a larger piece of software which necessitates a deep knowledge of the core project. I want to allow it, but I need to work out a way to do so whilst making sure that we don't end up with a free for all - that means manual review perhaps, but I agree that it would be very helpful if we can make it work. Re GitHub - we've built on GitHub initially but would love to extend to other platforms in time!
- pessimizer 4y ago
  As you've built a contracting platform targeting the best contributors to open source projects, you're collecting a group of people who are looking for work and are most fit to judge the abilities of others in the software they're expert at. Why not dogfood? I would say to maybe allow verified contributors/experts to invite others in under their account, and let them work from that context until they have enough feedback that they should be invited to join independently of their previous sponsor. My only real doubt is that even being a known contributor is going to be gamed unless there are clear processes for vetting and distinguishing between even the people who are verified contributors to a project, because some will be experts and some will not be.
  - mintone 4y ago
    Yeah - it's all in the vetting. I will dogfood a solution shortly!

pabs3 4y ago

If you are really good at Samba, join their commercial support providers list. Lots of big projects have similar things. https://www.samba.org/samba/support/ https://www.samba.org/samba/support/ Edit: GlusterFS has one too: https://www.gluster.org/community/consultants/ https://www.gluster.org/community/consultants/ Edit: unfortunately iFAX doesn't list other companies on the HylaFAX support page, but probably being active on their community support could get customers. https://www.hylafax.org/support/ https://www.hylafax.org/support/

djbusby 4y ago
I am, and do. I'm wondering what Ringer will do for these kind of case. Or if Ringer is only for GitHub libraries, or smaller projects or...

mintone 4y ago

Hey! So this is something that we are really interested in, and want to support. I've had about a dozen conversations about this, especially where someone has created packages for a larger piece of software which necessitates a deep knowledge of the core project. I want to allow it, but I need to work out a way to do so whilst making sure that we don't end up with a free for all - that means manual review perhaps, but I agree that it would be very helpful if we can make it work. Re GitHub - we've built on GitHub initially but would love to extend to other platforms in time!

pessimizer 4y ago
As you've built a contracting platform targeting the best contributors to open source projects, you're collecting a group of people who are looking for work and are most fit to judge the abilities of others in the software they're expert at. Why not dogfood? I would say to maybe allow verified contributors/experts to invite others in under their account, and let them work from that context until they have enough feedback that they should be invited to join independently of their previous sponsor. My only real doubt is that even being a known contributor is going to be gamed unless there are clear processes for vetting and distinguishing between even the people who are verified contributors to a project, because some will be experts and some will not be.
- mintone 4y ago
  Yeah - it's all in the vetting. I will dogfood a solution shortly!