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I am happy that my git host of choice has a very simple monetization/sustainability model: I pay money, they host my code. Thanks ddevault and anyone else from Sourcehut who may see this!
Looks 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 "recei…
The implication of a DAO and Crypto involvement has stirred attention in the comments. I have 2¢ on the matter. First, I don't think we've seen many examples like this in open-source communities. For that reason alone, regardless of the idea's merit, I welcome it; if it is to fail, let us see it, that we may have a case study in the future. Worst case, there is wide support for a fork, and I don't see that becoming a…
I'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
I'm confused, they don't mention crypto. This blog post is simply an announcement that they started a company. The purpose seems to mainly be for providing support services and paying developers. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Creating 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?
I am happy that my git host of choice has a very simple monetization/sustainability model: I pay money, they host my code. Thanks ddevault and anyone else from Sourcehut who may see this!
I mean, that's part of the model mentioned in the post above (Instance Hosting/SaaS).
I don't want to deal with experimentation or complex organizations or "an enhanced enterprise version" or free tiers. I want someone to take money from myself and other customers, and use it to make a good product without shenanigans.
E: As far as I know, it is still possible to get free accounts on sr.ht - however, it is very transparent that this is not a permanent offer.
If the author of this blogpost is reading this and wondering why the link in the post didn't render properly: > (their move to using Gitea)[ https://code.blender.org/2022/07/gitea-diaries-part-1/ ] it's because you switched up which braces go where for a markdown link. should be [text](link)
I constantly make that mistake. I don't know why, I simply can't seem to get the muscle memory right for some reason, and I always do ()[] first.
(When I speak of the details of URL encoding and which characters get percent-encoded, these things weren’t quite so clearly-defined back in 2004 as they are now, but I believe it was all still true.)
The main developer of Robot Framework and few companies using RF heavily understood that something had to be done, so Robot Framework Foundation(2) was formed. RF Foundation has membership fees, it arranges RF conferences etc. which allows RF Foundation to pay for the development of RF.
I think that is a really good way to fund OSS development. Those companies which benefit the most from it, pay membership fees and gets to vote on the direction of the product.
(1) https://robotframework.org/ (2) https://robotframework.org/foundation/