Funding continuous maintenance for PyInstaller?

[justin walters]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:01 AM, Hartmut Goebel <
h.goebel at crazy-compilers.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm seeking advice how to fund continuous maintenance for an open source
> project.
>
> *Do you have any idea how to fund continuous maintenance for PyInstaller?
> Do you have any idea whom or where to ask?
> Do you know somebody to help setting up a commercial support/maintenance
> model? *
>
> I'm the (remaining) maintainer of PyInstaller (www.pyinstaller,org).
> Currently I'm maintaining PyInstaller in my spare-time. But it's is
> getting to much work for working on it for free: the open issue tickets
> and pull-requests are piling up. Since PyInstaller is quite mature,
> problems are hard to track down and to solve. Thus solving one ticket
> often takes half a day or even more.
>
> I'm already got in tough with the the PSF and the Python Software
> Verband (much like PSF, just for Germany), but they have not experience
> with this. I also read the PSF grants program, but this doesn't fit for
> continous maintenance. I also had a look at bountysource, but the
> numbers offered there may be teasers for students, not for professionals
> - so I did not follow this road. I plan to add a "donate" page to the
> web-site, but I doubt this will bring in noteworthy amounts.
>
> So I was thinking about some commercial support/maintenance model, but I
> have no experience with this. As I'm a freelance consultant already (but
> in the information security business), this could be feasible to
> implement, if I'd know how to address the commercial users.
>
> Thanks for any tip!
>
> *About PyInstaller*
>
> PyInstaller is the successor of "McMillan Installer", a tool like,
> freeze, py2exe, py2app or bbfreeze - but PyInstaller supports Windows,
> MacOS and Unix (GN/Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, etc.). PyInstaller is widely
> used sa you can see when looking at the issues and on the mailinglist.
> E.g. kivy uses/recommends PyInstaller for building Python-Apps for
> mobile platforms.
>
> PyInstaller is also used for commercial applications (as some hints on
> the mailinglist or
> But most commercial users are unknown.
>
> *About me*
>
> I'm based an Germany and developing open source and free software since
> about 1990 and using Python since about 1998. Beside of this I developed
> software like pdfposter, python-ghostscript, python-managesieve, etc. My
> day-job is freelance consultant focused on information security.
>
> --
> Regards
> Hartmut Goebel
>
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He may be able to give you a mention on the show or even have you on as a
guest. He may also be able
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