Branko Čibej wrote on Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 23:30:24 +0100: > On 05.02.2017 22:22, Branko Čibej wrote: > > On 05.02.2017 22:02, Stefan wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be possible to also consider getting some > >> funding/sponsorship/donations?
To elaborate on Brane's reply: the ASF as an organization doesn't fund development; funding, when present, is expected to be handled directly between the funders (companies) and fundees (developers being paid). Nothing stops a consortium of interested parties from pooling their resources to fund someone's work on feature X, but that is expected to happen "out of band", not on any *.apache.org place but directly between those interested parties and that developer. Cheers, Daniel > >> If enough money gets donated maybe some of the existing committers could > >> arrange something with their dayjobs (as in being able to work like 20% > >> on SVN) and therefore be able to contribute more time on SVN than they > >> can right now? > >> > >> Also if some specific features would be put up as examples for > >> committers who would volunteer to work on a feature, that might be > >> caught up by companies who are willing to pay for getting the feature > >> into the subversion core (LuaJIT used that approach, for instance, quite > >> successfully). > > The ASF does not accept donations toward any particular project. Whilst > > we might encourage companies to fund individual developers, we solicit > > donations for specific features. > > I mean "can't solicit" of course. > > -- Brane >
