Yeah, Matthieu and I can still do reviews & help with such decisions.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 5:58 PM Gina White <[email protected]> wrote: > Will there be anyone able to take time to make decisions about design > choices and to do code reviews? > > Some things I currently have an interest in, (some are small, some are > big): > > . Adding thumbnails to PDFs > . Having perkeep understand how many pages are in a pdf, with that being > searchable > . Somehow allowing for multiple dates and people being associated with a > pdf (e.g. this document was created on date ‘a’ by user ‘z’, mailed on date > ‘b’ to user ‘y’, then emailed on date ‘c’ to user ‘x’) in a searchable way > > I used to make my living doing software engineering (and wrote the > pinboard importer for perkeep), but these days I’m working in the legal > field. A single case can have over 10,000 pages of PDFs associated with it > and I would like to be able to manage them better. > > - Gina > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:05 PM Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Another update: I've moved https://opencollective.com/perkeep back to >> being hosted by the Open Source non-profit ( >> https://opencollective.com/opensourcecollective) instead of me being the >> fiscal host. >> >> That means I don't get the money to my bank account directly anymore, >> which is good (and easier on taxes, ugh). We were only doing that because I >> needed to pay Mathieu in Euros before and Open Collective's Open Source >> non-profit fiscal host couldn't do that. >> >> So at least this point we can let people do work & get paid out via >> PayPal or Stripe or whatever from the non-profit and I'm not in the path, >> except to click "approve" on expenses along with Mathieu & Paul Lindner. >> PayPal can do the currency conversion. Tiny bit more in fees, but better >> than me dealing with it. >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 9:08 AM Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Perkeep users, >>> >>> I just wanted to give you all an update on the state of Perkeep and my & >>> Mathieu's situations. >>> >>> Of Perkeep's nearly 9 year existence, I'd been paying Mathieu to work on >>> Perkeep full-time for the past 6 of those years. >>> >>> But that was always supposed to be a temporary situation that we just >>> kept doing out of habit. I can't afford to pay Mathieu what he's worth, >>> though, and we've agreed that he it'd be better for him to get a "real job" >>> in the industry where he can make normal industry money. It'd also cut >>> down on my expenses. >>> >>> As for me: my time has only become more scarce now that I have a kid. >>> The guilt of not working on Perkeep enough (but wanting to!) is what led me >>> to pay Mathieu in the first place. >>> >>> So, what to do now? >>> >>> I continue to use Perkeep myself and it's not going anywhere, but it >>> does require ongoing maintenance for some parts (updating to new Go >>> versions, updating to ever-changing APIs for the site importers) and I hope >>> I or others in the community (including Mathieu for fun) will be able to >>> keep up with that. >>> >>> But in lieu of anybody working on this a lot (full-time or hobby), I >>> don't expect major work to happen on Perkeep for a bit. >>> >>> We're very grateful for the 20 supporters and 5 organizations supporting >>> us financially on Open Collective (https://opencollective.com/perkeep/), >>> but at this point you should probably stop or at least pause your >>> donations, as I have nobody to send the money to. I'll be taking out what >>> remains for Mathieu's final payments. >>> >>> If anybody has questions, concerns, or suggestions, we're all ears. >>> >>> We're of course also grateful for all those have contributed their time >>> & code, and we hope you will continue to do so. I hope to continue hacking >>> on Perkeep myself as I find pockets of time. >>> >>> Life, yo. >>> >>> - Brad & Mathieu >>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Perkeep" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Perkeep" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
