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So if they are all unpaid volunteer maintainers, what’s happening with that $2 million? It’s still a lot of money!
by tinus_hn 4y ago
So if they are all unpaid volunteer maintainers, what’s happening with that $2 million? It’s still a lot of money!
- speed_spread 4y agoServers for documentation and release hosting, Servers for CI and testing will chew up
- vbezhenar 4y agoIs it really needed today? GitHub can host documentation and releases. GitHub CI is free as well.
- lazide 4y agoFor small usage, and contributed as a marketing spend. If Apache tried to use it without doing it in the context of a formal deal or sponsorship, it wouldn’t last long. No such thing as a free lunch, or whatever.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- rectang 4y agoSee page 11: https://www.apache.org/foundation/docs/FY2021AnnualReport.pdf https://www.apache.org/foundation/docs/FY2021AnnualReport.pd... The core infrastructure team is paid, and that’s been the case since fairly early on — there’s too much work not suitable for a purely volunteer crew. Infra is half the budget.