I believe Raphael has applied for a MOSS award to work on the documentation. I’m happy to support this, or likely any other application.
Cheers, Dave > On 20 Feb 2017, at 21:41, Thomas Lotze <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just noticed that the next deadline for applications for Mozilla Open > Source Support awards will be due soon, at the end of the month. Also, > pytest (as well as tox) is listed among the projects Mozilla considers > Foundational technology which it supports through a dedicated awards track. > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Foundational_Technology/Projects_We_Use > > I wonder whether the pytest project should apply for an award. This question > has been brought up on this mailing list before, at least last summer by > Florian Bruhin. The discussion back then didn't lead to a conclusion, > more-or-less open questions being what well-defined project objective to > propose, who could work on it, and, not the least important, what Holger > thought of it as the money would likely be handled by his company. Florian > Schulze was the only one who said he was available full-time at the time. > > Now, I'm aware that I've not been known as a pytest contributor so far, but > I've been using pytest, I want to help improve it in turn, and I'm interested > in and available for working on open-source Python projects on the basis of > funding such as the MOSS awards. This is why I'd like to re-raise the > question of applying for such an award, and ask you who else might be > interested in joining the work and what would be the best objectives to have > funded. > > "Reducing the number of bugs" would be useful but possibly too much of general > maintenance to be eligible for an award. There are a number of enhancement > proposals in the tracker, some of which will be more urgent or helpful to the > project than others, or might lend themselves better to being implemented by > one or two persons rather than, e.g., during a sprint. > > If there is any interest in applying for a MOSS award, I'd be happy to work on > an application during the next few days. But if there is a feeling that > pytest shouldn't apply for an award, or not this time, I'd be equally > interested in discussing that and possibly preparing for next time. I'd > particularly like to ask the opinions of Holger, and of Dave Hunt, who is > listed as the project's contact within Mozilla on the above-mentioned list. > > Thank you! Cheers, > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > pytest-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev _______________________________________________ pytest-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev
