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The maintainers list is huge and many of them contribute sporadically. It’s not a good match for full-time employment at all. Hiring people as employees also c
by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
The maintainers list is huge and many of them contribute sporadically. It’s not a good match for full-time employment at all.
Hiring people as employees also completely changes the dynamic to something much more complex. Would this change require everyone to be an employee contribute? Are contributions now limited by budget? Can someone still contribute without being an employee? Who decides who gets to be an employee and who has to remain a free contributor? Who gets cut when budgets shrink in down years?
Linux Foundation does fund a lot of projects, but the idea of “just” raising enough money to make everyone employees isn’t feasible or realistic.
- nequo 3y ago> the idea of “just” raising enough money to make everyone employees isn’t feasible or realistic I didn't mean that everyone should be an employee. But some subsystems don't have enough maintainer capacity, while there are firms that want to push patches into those parts of the code base. None of them individually find it worthwhile to pay for a full-time maintainer, but maybe they could share the cost and hire one through the Linux Foundation?
- sitkack 3y agoI would hope that at some point sub system, maintainers would be paid and they would manage the volunteers who are sending in the patches.