On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 4:46 PM Eric K. Miller <emiller@genesishosting.com> wrote:
Our community has mostly relied on commercial distribution vendors and service providers to fill that role in the past. If enough of their customers say it's a feature they're relying on, then employing developers who can help keep it maintained is their raison d'être. This is how pretty much all free/libre open source community software projects work. -- Jeremy Stanley
Understood. I thought there may be a way to crowd-fund something in case smaller operators had small budgets, needed some feature supported, but couldn't afford an entire employee with the small budget.
Maybe there are developer consultants interested in a gig to maintain something for a while. Not sure where the best place to go for matching operators with consultants for this type of thing.
fwaas seems like such a necessity. We would love to offer it, but it is unusable with DVR. We just don't have the budget to hire someone specifically for development/support of this.
Smells like a case for gofundme time. Or, is there still time for google summer of code submission?
Eric