Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
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Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
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Re: Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
#2Looks like Blender is onboard with moving to Gitea. However:
> To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions.
So Gitea wants to create a DAO and "receive benefits based on their participation such as from code" assuming it going to be similar to Gitcoin, which may involve using crypto tokens, NFTs and the like.
Good for them; either way.
Re: Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
#3Creating a DAO for this sounds _incredibly_ risky to me. One tiny flaw in the design of that organization and the project could be destroyed by people gaming the DAO rules for profit.
Re: Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
#4Good luck with it.
And if you:
- work for a company that uses open source, look for excuses to support it (support contract, etc. I even got good value out of some.)
- are an open source project that takes donations: don't get greedy. Two projects I went out of my way to support because they were open source shortly afterwards started "experimenting with models".
Re: Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
#5I've been donating to Gitea for years (on their Open Collective [1]) but if they start with this cryptocurrency/blockchain stuff, I am out. I am trying to fund development, not invest unstable currency technology.
Gitea itself started as a fork of Gogs, it wouldn't be too surprising to see it fork again if they start being creative with the brand.
Re: Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
#6Creating a DAO for this sounds _incredibly_ risky to me. One tiny flaw in the design of that organization and the project could be destroyed by people gaming the DAO rules for profit.
But does decentralized autonomous organization always have to imply blockchain?
Re: Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
#7I've been donating to Gitea for years (on their Open Collective [1]) but if they start with this cryptocurrency/blockchain stuff, I am out. I am trying to fund development, not invest unstable currency technology. Gitea itself started as a fork of Gogs, it wouldn't be too surprising to see it fork again if they start being creative with the brand. [1]: https://opencollective.com/gitea
They don't even mention a single thing about crypto?
Re: Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
#8Going the way of gitlab?
Re: Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
#9Creating a DAO for this sounds _incredibly_ risky to me. One tiny flaw in the design of that organization and the project could be destroyed by people gaming the DAO rules for profit.
There is absolutely nothing that stops anyone from forking the project.
Re: Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
#10Good luck with it. And if you: - work for a company that uses open source, look for excuses to support it (support contract, etc. I even got good value out of some.) - are an open source project that takes donations: don't get greedy. Two projects I went out of my way to support because they were open source shortly afterwards started "experimenting with models".
> are an open source project that takes donations: don't get greedy. Two projects I went out of my way to support because they were open source shortly afterwards started "experimenting with models".
How do you know it's greed and not just insufficient donations forcing them to try to find alternative financing? Just because you donated doesn't mean enough people/businesses did.