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Tidelift funds #12
Description
A company called Tidelift is selling OSS support to companies and funneling the funds to maintainers. They use the dependency trees of their customers to figure out which packages are depended upon and which, therefore, should get the funds. It's not a perfect metric, but I think they're trying to do the right thing.
The only work that maintainers have to do is commit to share release notes on the Tidelift site (I think they're going to automate this at some point), add a readme badge, and share info about security issues.
Wanted to make sure that folks here were aware of it.
Browserify has at least $417/mo available for the next two years
https://tidelift.com/lifter/search/npm/browserify
How does Tidelift pay maintainers?
https://tidelift.com/about/lifter
$1m to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift
https://blog.tidelift.com/1m-to-pay-open-source-maintainers-on-tidelift
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goto-bus-stop commentedon Sep 21, 2018
rad! i agree w @substack especially on documentation/recipes and performance work, where browserify can be lacking compared to other tools. personally i'd also really like to get Node-compatible ES modules in, with rollup-style scope hoisting optimization (either as a plugin or in core). i imagine the Modules WG will be stabilising at least some part of that over the next 2 years. there is also always more than enough work to do on core module shims, which have been evolving more rapidly in node.js in the past few years.
i'd love to pick some of this up, and have some time available to do so.
goto-bus-stop commentedon Oct 1, 2018
I signed up. If someone else is also interested, I think you can just also sign up to lift the browserify package and tidelift will get in touch to work out how it gets split up and such.
goto-bus-stop commentedon Apr 5, 2019
Tidelift messaged me about some more browserify-org packages that have small amounts of funding available each.
I'll sign up for the things I've worked on, if you the reader also contribute to any of these packages and are interested please message me or tidelift and we can work that out. (stream-browserify is more work than $6/month so we could pool funds from the main browserify repo for example)