Hi, On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Ashton Hogan <ashtonho...@ymail.com.invalid> wrote: > ...I've also tried begging for contributions, it got me nowhere, I eventually > just settled >for paying for them instead which moved me forward way quicker... this is just >my > personal experience...
Paying people to contribute to Apache projects is a fantastic contribution, but that cannot go through the Apache Software Foundation as it's a basic principle that the Foundation *never* pays for writing software for our projects. What you can do is contract people to work on things that you find useful, keeping in mind that merging these contributions into Apache NetBeans is subject to approval of the NetBeans PPMC, like any other contribution. People have been running crowdfunding campaigns for their work on Apache projects, for example, and that's great as long as the ASF can stay totally out of it and see the results just as another contribution. The example disclaimer at https://community.apache.org/committers/funding-disclaimer.html should help explain that better. -Bertrand (incubation mentor for NetBeans) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
