TL;DNR; after reading about Tidelift (https://tidelift.com/), and having been asked about ways to support Jackson project financially (donations? subscription), I decided that it would be worth trying out Tidelift as support mechanism. This is a proof-of-concept, work-in-progress, experiment, with no strict solid plan yet.
Longer explanation... The idea is relatively simple: project (*) maintainer(s) may sign up to be "Lifters", maintainers, that will get profit share from Tidelift-sold subscriptions to curated libraries. I have signed up as Lifter for core (jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind) components, and will expand this over time. I hope that other active maintainers of modules like Kotlin and Scala modules, Java 8 date/time module might be interested in signing up as well -- we need to figure out how sign up should work as this is non-trivial (but not full-time) commitment, with some compensation (but nothing even near full-time-enabling at this point). (*) project seems to assume 1-to-1 mapping between artifact (Maven jar) and Github repo -- not sure how this will work with multi-maven-subproject repos So: how does this affect you? You will be seeing some minor additions over time, like at: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core you can now see new "Sponsor" badge on top of the badge; as well as Tidelift ("lifted") badge: former shows URL, latter links directly, to Tidelift page that has subcscription information that Companies can use to subscibe to project(s) in question. Doing so will increase income by maintainers (Lifters) of that package. There will be some improvement to project metadata (such as ensuring Github now knows Jackson projects are Apache 2.0 licensed; security disclosure project notes). On Tidelift side, I will need to work on providing release notes in additional form (which is relatively easy as I can repurpose Wiki release notes, maybe simplify integration eventually), add metadata on stable/deprecated branches. This information is available to (only?) subscribers, but it will be additional, above and beyond what I already do and plan to keep on doing. I will also start adding information about Tidelift, trying my best (... probably not very good but I try :) ) to market the option to subscribe to Jackson (and Woodstox, Aalto, Java Classmate, Java UUID Generator, java-merge-sort, compress-lzf - -OSS packages I have written and maintain). Who knows, maybe this could help me spend much more time on OSS development, support over time? With that, I hope changes you may have (and will) notice make more sense. Let me know if you have questions, concerns, suggestions. -+ Tatu +- ps. I am open to adding other complementary forms of support as well: Tidelift does not have (nor try, as far as I know) a monopoly as support mechanism -- but obviously other mechanisms should be complementary in different dimensions (such as pure donations), and not competing in similar terms. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jackson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jackson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jackson-dev/CAL4a10ibrY-PJECjj2%2BjFGj-a%2Bf_wEbLSBf%3DRxa346Lf6s4PLQ%40mail.gmail.com.
