Hello, The HaikuOS group has fundraisers to help pay a developer to implement a lot of the changes that get required in their meetings and forums in HaikuOS. I am on the HaikuOS forum frequently and love seeing the discussions there.
I have a lot of interest in seeing GNUStep improve in a couple of ways, and I am willing to put money into it. Some of it I have tried to implement myself, but either because my skills were considered subpar or there was simply no interest (specifically when I tried to improve the HiDPI stuff, I got it fully working on my own, but the interest seemed low. I assume because there is no real interest, and that is fine, I think in projects like these people are only going to be willing to implement and look at what interests them. I contribute a good amount of money towards various online projects including Swift WASM, because its progress is extremely important to my business. GNUStep, is something I WANT to hook into. I want my apps running on Linux but hate GTK and Qt. I tried writing a sort of Swift bridge for it, but you can't subclass, you have to write an individual function for every IMP, it is not sustainable. With that said, there are a few areas that I am willing to put money towards if a programmer in the group would be willing to prioritize it or take it on. It never hurts to discuss a reasonable price. 1. Objective-C + Swift bridge. I don't care if it is simply a fork of Swift or actually contributing to the upstream. 2. HiDPI implementation (I have done a LOT of work on this, and have it fully working for X I have never tested the Wayland changes). The changes are on my GitHub, 3. CALayers on NSViews (This one is actually huge for me). 4. I would love to see an actual forum (instead of this mailing list), how much does it cost to maintain one? I might be willing to pay for it outright. Opinion: I very much consider these projects like GS-Desktop and NextSpace to be quite important to progressing GNUStep, they make me excited. Something like this needs to be prioritized as well. GNUStep wants to be OpenStep, but really I think it needs to be NextStep. It needs to be a working environment that dominates. https://github.com/austintatiousness/libs-gui https://github.com/austintatiousness/libs-back https://github.com/austintatiousness/GNUStepSwiftBridge Thanks Austin (not a Dr)
