LibreTime Development Priorities

[gusaus]

Quick clarification on some previous points

@gusaus

Accept the reality LibreTime is unsustainable as an all-volunteer project.

This was more of general view on any large scale, user facing product. Offhand I can’t think of any that are actively developed, documented, and maintained long term as a 100% volunteer project.

For LibreTime, a continuously updated and maintained version of AirTime broadcasters can depend on, seemed to be one of the main motivations for the fork. LibreTime: A Fork of AirTime due to stalled development - Airtime Development Discussions on Sourcefabric Forum

Main reason I was suggesting 3 - 6 was to get some sort of sense for what and who might be needed to achieve those goals.

@robbt

I think that we should test the water so to speak and without coming up with a grand plan to build a paid development team…

I had to go back and check these comments… I’m certainly not proposing a grand plan to fund a full-time development team. Agreed that’s unrealistic.

@robbt

…a next step would be to setup a process for taking donations and distributing them to developers who are contributing and can use the funds. OpenCollective could be a way to pursue this. I also have a 501c3 non-profit I am involved in that could help facilitate some of this.

Maybe I should have referenced that Open Collective discussion last. Seems like we agree how it can be used. Especially if we have a pretty good sense of development priorities, needs, and goals.