Making freerouting sustainable #81
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Hey guys,
I was thinking about the future of freerouting, and I would appreciate your input and ideas.
As it currently stands, I'm the recently most active developer of this repo, but I hardly find the time to work on it. As an effort to attract other Java developers, I added a few tags so that we get listed on listings like this: https://github.com/topics/help-wanted and I updated our README, but nobody got excited enough to join the project yet.
I really would like to see freerouting to grow, and I have two alternative ways in mind, and I would like to know what you think.
1, Bounties for issues
There are several sites that support this idea of giving individual developers a fixed amount of money if they fix an issue in an open source project like this one.
I found these options:
https://issuehunt.io/
https://opencollective.com/
https://gitpay.me/#/
https://gitcoin.co/
https://tip4commit.com/
https://polyglot.network/
These sites usually let anyone to chip in. I haven't used them, so I don't have a preference.
Have you used these, do you have any practical tips?
2, Hiring freelancers
I currently work with upwork.com on my other projects and I'm very satisfied with the quality of work I get from freelancers. I don't have Java developers at the moment, but I'm sure we could find some, if we wanted to. With this option we would get the benefit that the developer we would hire could get really familiar with the code, making him/her more efficient over time.
Obviously both options would cost money. Collecting and managing money online is not obvious and requires trust.
If I can see here that many of you support one of these ideas then what I can offer is that I would donate $50 per month as a start, and I would do the hiring, technical reviews and payouts. I can understand if you didn't trust me initially, so ideally we could use a system where I'm not the only one who needs to agree to release the funds, but I'm not sure how that technically possible.
Would you donate to this project if you knew it goes directly to its developers?
Would you prefer a monthly donation or a issue-based bounty system?
Alright, that's all I have for now, let me know what you think!
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