Re: Gitlab packaging project funding status changed.

[Pirate Praveen]

On ചൊ, ജൂൺ 28 2022 at 06:13:32 വൈകു +00:00:00 
+00:00:00, Georg Faerber  wrote:

Hi,

On 22-06-28 18:37:27, Pirate Praveen wrote:

 


tells:

[...]
Gitlab Inc sponsored work on this project for 6+ years until recently.
Now we are looking for the community to support it

Did GitLab Inc. announce in public that they're not sponsoring this 
work

anymore? Besides, what's the reasoning of this decision, if any?



The sponsorship / payment was always through direct email 
communication. Initially it was just me and later Sruthi and Abhijith 
joined and we created a partnership firm just for this - 
https://untang.tech (also triggered by concerns from backports admins 
since it was a single person handling a large number of backports 
uploads, though since then, the number of uploads to backports reduced, 
and more uploads are not only in fasttrack.debian.net).


Before starting gitlab, I did a crowd funding of diaspora 
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/make-diaspora-installation-one-step-on-debian#/ 
after this I asked if Gitlab Inc if they can fund half of the amount if 
I do a crowd funding. They said they can fund full and they kept 
funding until now from that point.


They said budget constraints, may be their priorities changed.


Thanks,
Georg

Re: Gitlab packaging project funding status changed.

[Georg Faerber]

Hi,

On 22-06-28 18:37:27, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> 

tells:

[...]
Gitlab Inc sponsored work on this project for 6+ years until recently.
Now we are looking for the community to support it

Did GitLab Inc. announce in public that they're not sponsoring this work
anymore? Besides, what's the reasoning of this decision, if any?

Thanks,
Georg

Re: Gitlab packaging project funding status changed.

[Pirate Praveen]

We have started an Open Collective to ask Free Software community to 
donate to continue maintaining gitlab and dependencies.




Spread the word.

Gitlab packaging project funding status changed.

[Pirate Praveen]

Hi Ruby team,

A bit of disappointing news: Gitlab Inc is stopping their funding for the 
packaging work. So we will have to find other sources of funding or reduce the 
scope of the Debian Packaging project (we will have to depend on rubygems.org 
more and stop updating ruby dependencies) or find more volunteers. So my 
involvement in ruby team might be lesser than what it used to be with funding.

Thanks
Praveen
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