By his activity Glyph seems a great candidate. It’s really great news! Twisted should live and grow!
Regards, Taroved On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM Adi Roiban via Twisted <twisted@python.org> wrote: > Hi all > > We are fortunate to be part of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and > even more fortunate to receive donations from Thinkst [1] and from various > organizations via Tidelift and GitHub Sponsors [2]. > > Summary: > * At the start of 2024, cash on hand for the Twisted project was at > ~$27,000 USD. > * We plan to have Glyph as a paid maintainer, 5 hours a week at $100/hour. > * Work will focus on code review, merge of PRs, documentation > * The paid maintainer will keep the community updated on the progress via > blog posts. > * Anyone is invited to decide the future of the Twisted project > > -------- > > At this point only I and Glyph were involved in the discussions / decision > making with the PSF. > I know that the communication was not ideal. > We have quarterly meetings with the PSF. > If anyone wants to participate, let us know and we will ask PSF to send > you an invitation for the next meeting > The next meeting is scheduled for 7th of July, 16:00 UTC. > > ------------- > > We plan to spend that money to pay for a maintainer, 5 hours a week at > $100/hour, > not to exceed our current budget. > > The plan is to use the majority of the time to do reviews and merge any > PRs that are very close to the point where they can be merged. > > The maintainer will write a public report / blog post that will support > the person/people reviewing/approving the invoices. > > In this regard, the paid maintainer will also do a bit of community > management work. > > Glyph has agreed to start working as a paid maintainer and he is available > starting with June 2025 > > -------------- > > I wish that in the near future we can increase the number of sponsors and > the number of paid maintainers. > For now the only maintainer that expressed the desire to help with paid > maintainer work was Glyph. If you would like to work as a paid maintainer, > let us know. > For now, the only public sponsors are Thinks and SFTPPlus [3] > > To disclose, I partially own SFTPPlus. > > If anyone has any suggestions or comments, please let us know. > > Cheers > > > [1] https://thinkst.com/ > [2] https://github.com/sponsors/twisted > [3] https://www.sftpplus.com/ > -- > Adi Roiban > _______________________________________________ > Twisted mailing list -- twisted@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to twisted-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/twisted.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/twisted@python.org/message/FZSXKDHAOZWZWCOMFCK3OBV2IVXEX2E2/ > Code of Conduct: https://twisted.org/conduct >
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