Hi Bryn,

On 4 Dec 2014 at 01:58:25, Bryn Jeffries 
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

> The consortium that I am currently working for is interested in using XWiki 
> for managing its projects and performing some reporting. Supporting this is 
> beyond my current skillset and availability, so I'm interested in sponsoring 
> this work. I know the sponsor system is quite new, but I'd appreciate any 
> guidance on how one should determine a reasonable fee for such work. What 
> sort of amount is likely to generate sufficient interest from active XWiki 
> developers?

May I suggest that you look at the professional support page:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support

The companies listed will do support but also specific/custom development.

Now your other options is also to use sponsorfreedem and place one or several 
bounties with a price tag and hope someone from the community will pick them 
up. I have no idea regarding the price and what would be acceptable though, as 
you say it’s new. You could check the stats here 
https://freedomsponsors.org/stats/ and see which bounties were done and paid. 
You could also check the amounts listed at https://www.bountysource.com/.

So you have 2 options for custom dev:
- professional: more expensive but done professionally, quickly, within your 
schedule, with support thereafter if bugs are found
- community: less expensive but not sure someone will get interested and less 
sure about deadlines

So I guess it depends on the budget you have and your timeline.

Hope it helps,
-Vincent

PS: Maybe we should put a FAQ with this content somewhere on xwiki.org, WDYT?


> Thanks,
>  
> Bryn

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