That really is unfortunate to hear about the lack of funding. I see in the past few years there has been a lot of work done on the conflict resolver in version 10 and multiple stash implementations in versions 11+. Are those efforts being driven by people just working on it in their “spare time”?
Luke > On Dec 11, 2021, at 10:21 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 06:59:31AM -0600, Luke Mauldin wrote: >> Does the subversion project receive any funding from the ASF to hire >> professional developers to complete more complex tasks or is development 100% >> community driven and supported? > > The ASF does not pay anyone for development. I think this is an unfortunate > situation because many ASF projects slowly die off as funding dries up. > I believe the ASF is unlikely to change this long-standing practice, even > though there are other open source foundations which fund developers. > The FreeBSD and OpenBSD foundations pay some development (see their > financial reports), and apparently a new PHP foundataion is starting up > with the sole purpose of funding PHP developers. > > In the past many SVN developers were employed by companies who ran with > business models related to Subversion. This is the funding model the ASF > is promoting. However, as of a few years ago most such companies changed > direction and are no longer employing any SVN developers. Many people have > moved on as a result and are no longer active. > > (Disclaimer: I still receive a small amount of indirect SVN-related funding > via elego's SVN customer support. I occasionally use some of this time > to work on various things in Subversion, even though this budget is not > intended to fund development beyond customer-specific issues which can > only be fixed in the code base. And it is not enough to cover complex tasks.)
