Hi, I'm seeking advice how to fund continuous maintenance for an open source project.
*Do you have any idea how to fund continuous maintenance for PyInstaller? Do you have any idea whom or where to ask? Do you know somebody to help setting up a commercial support/maintenance model? * I'm the (remaining) maintainer of PyInstaller (www.pyinstaller,org). Currently I'm maintaining PyInstaller in my spare-time. But it's is getting to much work for working on it for free: the open issue tickets and pull-requests are piling up. Since PyInstaller is quite mature, problems are hard to track down and to solve. Thus solving one ticket often takes half a day or even more. I'm already got in tough with the the PSF and the Python Software Verband (much like PSF, just for Germany), but they have not experience with this. I also read the PSF grants program, but this doesn't fit for continous maintenance. I also had a look at bountysource, but the numbers offered there may be teasers for students, not for professionals - so I did not follow this road. I plan to add a "donate" page to the web-site, but I doubt this will bring in noteworthy amounts. So I was thinking about some commercial support/maintenance model, but I have no experience with this. As I'm a freelance consultant already (but in the information security business), this could be feasible to implement, if I'd know how to address the commercial users. Thanks for any tip! *About PyInstaller* PyInstaller is the successor of "McMillan Installer", a tool like, freeze, py2exe, py2app or bbfreeze - but PyInstaller supports Windows, MacOS and Unix (GN/Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, etc.). PyInstaller is widely used sa you can see when looking at the issues and on the mailinglist. E.g. kivy uses/recommends PyInstaller for building Python-Apps for mobile platforms. PyInstaller is also used for commercial applications (as some hints on the mailinglist or But most commercial users are unknown. *About me* I'm based an Germany and developing open source and free software since about 1990 and using Python since about 1998. Beside of this I developed software like pdfposter, python-ghostscript, python-managesieve, etc. My day-job is freelance consultant focused on information security. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible | -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
