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Add a way to donate / support project
- [x] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
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Issue
For developer time writing features, tests, documentation, QA PRs and in the issue tracker, there should be financial support / donations for the time of the developers. Right now (as of this post) it is @finswimmer @abn @sdispater and @stephsamson
This project is too sophisticated and essential to not have funding for operating and maintaining it. Please add a GitHub sponsors, patreon, opencollective, etc. so maintainers can have expenses compensated for website/domain/operating CI/etc and time spent on project (issues, docs, tests, qa, writing features, etc)
Also please consider linking to the contribution options in the installers: get-poetry.py and the new install-poetry.py in 1.2+
The org should then try to see if larger companies can contribute if they depend on it - since there is an investment in using the tech, it's super important poetry operates work smoothly and the project doesn't grow stale due to too high of a workload / fatigue / etc on maintainers
My personal backstory is I was using pipenv for a long time on multiple projects and eventually migrated to poetry. (requirements.txt before that of course, and still keep those around)
Today I am now on poetry on several open source projects and at work. I hope I have a package manager that I can depend on for the long haul.
I'm struck by the amount of issues / PRs on the tracker and how complex the problem being solved is.
The project is too big and active to be unfunded. IMO, The time of the maintainers is super valuable since only a handful know the internals well enough to QA / understand an issue relation to things
Even if the donations aren't immediately used, proceeds can be saved for later when the org needs them.
The sooner there is a donation option the better.
15,000 stars, numerous projects on poetry. Poetry is too important to be unfunded.
Node has yarn and npm. Python should have a lightning-fast package manager, too.
Hello everyone,
thanks a lot for your warm feedback. We really appreciate it :bowing_man:
The topic about a way to donate poetry directly with money is something @sdispater has to decided.
What especially companies can do, if they like to support poetry in a way, is to give there employees a fixed time they can spend to support poetry. Having more people, who can contribute on a regular bases, would help us a lot. They don't necessarily need to start coding. Looking into the issue tracker and finding duplicates or outdated tickets or answer question there is important as well and would give us more time in actually fixing bugs or implement new features.
fin swimmer
@finswimmer
Let me know if my understanding is correct
Role: Contributor
It'd be helpful to have more developers aware of the project internals that can code review, write bug fixes, improve DevOps, etc.?
Role: Supporting the issue tracker
It seems like it'd be a good idea to outline that this sort of role (no programming required) would be valuable!
They don't necessarily need to start coding. Looking into the issue tracker and finding duplicates or outdated tickets or answer question there is important as well.
It looks like an eye for organization and prioritization would be a big contribution (we are at 970 open issues atm)
Is there a central document / place to look for helpers to get a sense of:
- scope
- What decisions fall under the purview of poetry?
- Is the situation a niche case? Best fit for a plugin?
- Is the issue supported? Outdated python version? Unsupported OS? etc.
- roadmap (I suppose the kanban boards are great for this!)
- what features are on deck for the next major release?
- slated for future releases
- not on the horizon
- priority info on what is needed to know if an issue would be fixed as a bug, next minor release, next major version, backported, etc
That would be helpful getting people up to speed! If that's available, then a posting can be pinned / shared to request for help
The topic about a way to donate poetry directly with money is something @sdispater has to decided.
Recently, @jazzband has gotten help from PSF / Python Software Foundation's Fiscal Sponsoree program.
Would the project maintainers be interested in contact them and see if they could help in managing donations with their 501(c)(3)?
P.S. If you'd like me to write an intro email to them and CC you (any/all of poetry maintainers) let me know.
For those who wish to donate, Sebastien has a Github sponsors account: https://github.com/sponsors/sdispater
I think it's a little bit sad that this project doesn't have any 'official' way to fund or sponsor it. I actively searched for a open issue like this in intention to open one about that topic if there shouldn't be one.
In my opinion in this thread are already a lot of good suggestions.
I would suggest the following things:
- a notice on the README.md of poetry to the site of Sebastien as mentioned by @tbabej:
[...] Sebastien has a Github sponsors account: https://github.com/sponsors/sdispater
to get more attention to the possibility of donating at all to the project. Or at least add it to the CONTRIBUTING.md.
- on poetry.org add under documentation another section "Donating :heart: " with a heart icon or something like this (there is funnily enough exactly one placeholder left :tada: :smiley:)
- as @finswimmer already wrote:
The topic about a way to donate poetry directly with money is something @sdispater has to decided.
This means lets get the attention of @sdispater on this topic! A statement of him why or why not he doesn't want to setup funding for poetry would be cool. That would ultimately close this issue. If he wants the option but needs help, here are a lot of people and I, ready to help.
@neersighted added a label 7 days ago. This means the topic is still on the plate.
There are 1.1k issues lets get rid of one of them.
If @sdispater should read by. If you don't like to take help from other people(I have this problem and know how it is) one advice: People who like to help you and do it on a frequently base, they usually like you and want to support you. If they want to give you money, that you can live a good life and be able to do what you want, they don't buy you, they want to support you. Big difference.
@neersighted added a label 7 days ago. This means the topic is still on the plate.
Hi, just wanted to note that me tagging an issue doesn't imply anything -- not that I think anyone on the team is opposed to this discussion. I'd just like to point out that your phrasing makes some triage work sound like a personal endorsement.
Hi, just wanted to note that me tagging an issue doesn't imply anything -- not that I think anyone on the team is opposed to this discussion.
Hey, okay.
I'd just like to point out that your phrasing makes some triage work sound like a personal endorsement.
Sorry, please don't get me wrong. I just wanted to say that I think that a stable funding base is the first step to get a lot of pressure of the chest. Therefore it is usually one of the first and most urgent steps to take in guiding a company. The next thing I want to point out is that in interface-design and user friendliness people usually don't like to go the long or hard way. Basically get discouraged. That means by not presenting a easy access to a funding or sponsoring option user usually take it as given and don't search for it. Therefore the more hidden the option is the more you lose people on the way of discovering it, therefore leaving potential behind. Sometimes it is because people have a psychological personal problem with it(we all are humans after all) and that's the reason why I wanted to point that out.
Best wishes
I'd love to see Poetry create a collective on OpenCollective.
Target's Open Source Fund will (currently) only consider donating to projects when they have an OC account.
