[pytest-dev] pytest and Mozilla's Open Source Support program

[Floris Bruynooghe]

Hi Sivan,

I've had a quick look at this as well and Mozilla's guidance says you
need to submit a particular project rather then general maintenance.
There probably are a bunch of smaller things which could make up a
proposal but I'm struggling of coming up with a few large projects to
list right away.  Did you have anything particular in mind which would
benefit from a focussed effort?  What are the exact deadlines for this
application round?  Also I gather they have several application rounds
so I don't think we have to rush and can happily prepare a possible
application with plenty of time?

And yes, when GSoC comes around it would be really nice if we could
join.  I guess the trick is again finding someone who can dedicate
enough time and knowledge of pytest over the whole summer to mentor.
But a reminder when applications are due would certainly be good, we
should probably do the effort for this (I might even volunteer for
mentoring).

Regards,
Floris

On 22 August 2016 at 12:40, Sivan Greenberg <sivan at vitakka.co> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
>  I did not see any responses to my last note - I guess everybody are on
> vacation? Any new input on that?
>
>
>  With regards to prospective freelancers to do work, so far we have me and
> Florian Schulze. Anybody else interested as well?
>
>  I've mentioned before also that I'd like us to start an internship
> initiative, so we can list in GSoC and similar new-comers to coding
> communities to expedite the development effort. I'll mail the list
> separately.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Sivan
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Sivan Greenberg <sivan at vitakka.co> wrote:
>>
>> Hi again,
>>
>>  I am happy to volunteer for that - I will sure need to ask people here
>> for data that I cannot find myself. I have had experience working with US
>> based Linux foundation ,GSoC and the Freescale  organizations, I think this
>> should not be too much different and not a huge task.
>>
>>  If anybody here is happy with me attempting at that, I'll set to do it. I
>> will also be highly keen on doing even part of the development, so doing
>> community and coding is much fun :)
>>
>> -Sivan
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Florian Schulze <mail at florian-schulze.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I know Holger is on vacation for a while. I doubt he got time to handle
>>> this in August.
>>>
>>> I would be available for development work. I got no experience with
>>> organizational and legal stuff in regard to US based foundations when living
>>> in Germany.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Florian Schulze
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8 Aug 2016, at 15:37, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:13 AM Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> via [1] (German) I just stumbled upon Mozilla's MOSS program[2].
>>>>>
>>>>> They have a track[3] where they found generic OSS projects furthering
>>>>> their mission, and another one[4] (probably more relevant to us) where
>>>>> they fund projects they use themselves. From what I've seen via
>>>>> Dave Hunt, Mozilla is quite a heavy pytest user with various plugins
>>>>> they wrote.
>>>>>
>>>>> The grants are between $10k and $250k. If time permits, this could
>>>>> e.g. be used by Merlinux (i.e., Holger's company) to allow someone to
>>>>> work on pytest (or possibly, tox/devpi - not sure if those are used at
>>>>> Mozilla too?) full-time for a while.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That sounds great, but first we would need to find someone willing to do
>>>> the work. Does anybody on the mailing list volunteers? I can't volunteer
>>>> myself as I already have a full time job.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Bruno
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