On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:14 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Indeed, maybe we should actually put freedomsponsors on http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support and link to http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support in http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing since all the listed company in supports have core committers. > > >> Thanks, >> >> Bryn > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
