Corporate purchasing and policies make funding open source Literally Impossible. Nothing’s going to change until you make them pay you. Someone filed a bug? Support contract. Someone wants a feature? Support contract. It’s literally easier to pay you $1500/yr than $25 once.
My view is that tidelift is an interesting attempt at a more straightforwardly for-profit play in a field that has traditionally been more non-profit and 'for-profit, but'-driven via e.g. the Linux Foundation, the Apache Foundation, etc.; it likely attracts very different people
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because it sets very different incentive structures, but depending on their outlook and setup a service like theirs might be able to (tough not necessarily be incentivised to) triage e.g. abandonment of high usage modules.
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@tidelift) definitely plan to tell subscribers about unmaintained packages, and eventually we'd love to have predictive capability: based on data points X, Y, and Z, we expect the package will become unmaintained in the near future. - 4 more replies
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