Hi, Romain is doing an awesome work, but I don't see a lot of people actually handling the liq codebase. I love and use the product for my personal use, for non-profits and for-profit systems, and have done happily so for 10 years. Yet, liq can't thrive if we depend on a single maintainer, and we're going to burn him out if we don't provide help.
I don't have enough time, and probably am not a good candidate to work on OCaml, but I can easily drive devs around the codebase (and I'm sure Romain will happily do so as well), and build the required business around it if we go down that road. I also know there is a few downstream projects that would be impacted as well and could need support or help. Who would be interested in supporting such an operation, either by contributing, or through financing ? To what extent ? I can identify different scopes, with varying level of costs and implication: - base maintenance work on liq itself and the surrounding ecosystem - new features - liquidsoap language consulting and support - turnkey liquidsoap solutions If you can and want to work on these aspects, well tell us so :P If you're interested in sponsoring any parts, tell me how you'd like to make it happen. Donations and work along a foundation/non-profit? Support contract, tickets through a business? How much? In what countries? What would you expect in return? Maybe we can build a non-profit organization to work as the savonet foundation (and we could call it soapdish or liqdoor... j/k, mostly :P), and have businesses backing it depending what the community expects... This is a call for proposals, and an announce I'm willing to step up and help make it happen. I'm open to any comment on this, and only getting started on the overall idea. Romain is on board with the idea as well, and needs to be a central part of the plan! Cheers, Gilles _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list Savonet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
