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> This can make it harder to recruit further contributors as there is a two-clays system of contributors. We'll see. I haven't seen any reduction in contributi

> This can make it harder to recruit further contributors as there is a two-clays system of contributors. We'll see. I haven't seen any reduction in contributions (not that the project gets lots of contributions because we're the same as every other Open Source project, most consumers just consume). Also, note that the fee is just for maintenance. I've seen near 0% contribution rate for all Open Source projects to "maintenance chores". Those just don't fall into the "scratch your own itch" class of problems. > Accepting money make sit a business transaction, if I accept somebody's money they have demands towards me. Then I got to work on it. True, but I've been committed to my project for over 25 years and I want to continue to improve the project. The fee has really helped keep that motivation up (aka: sustainable). The reaction has been mostly positive which is also a plus. :) > But of course the volunteer free model has sustainability issues ... Agreed. I think the OSMF is a good way to tackle exactly that issue.

kvemkon 1y ago
Free software community participants, contributors, can feel discouraged with the diving the whole community in strictly 2 class of only Maintainers vs. Consumers and then demand something like an Open Source Contributors Fee. All those investigative and reporting work about software behavior issues, hard to reproduce issues, bugs only in specific environment or specific circumstances, sharing experience, helping each other and so on, let alone fixing some issues on their owns and posting PRs.
- robmensching 1y ago
  There aren't 2 classes of participants. The OSMF only talks about two but there are plenty of spaces for contributors to participate. And it's possible people will choose to participate less, but I haven't seen that happening yet. Contributors that like working on a project just work on a project. I've not seen any complaints about maintainers getting the paid because the contributors just drop in and drop out when they feel like it. They don't work on all the "chores" in the project to keep it running. If a contributor does do "chores" then they are probably more like a maintainer and probably should be part of the maintenance fee. But... this hasn't been a problem.

kvemkon 1y ago

Free software community participants, contributors, can feel discouraged with the diving the whole community in strictly 2 class of only Maintainers vs. Consumers and then demand something like an Open Source Contributors Fee. All those investigative and reporting work about software behavior issues, hard to reproduce issues, bugs only in specific environment or specific circumstances, sharing experience, helping each other and so on, let alone fixing some issues on their owns and posting PRs.

robmensching 1y ago
There aren't 2 classes of participants. The OSMF only talks about two but there are plenty of spaces for contributors to participate. And it's possible people will choose to participate less, but I haven't seen that happening yet. Contributors that like working on a project just work on a project. I've not seen any complaints about maintainers getting the paid because the contributors just drop in and drop out when they feel like it. They don't work on all the "chores" in the project to keep it running. If a contributor does do "chores" then they are probably more like a maintainer and probably should be part of the maintenance fee. But... this hasn't been a problem.