[Pandas-dev] Tidelift

[G Young]

I second Joris' point here.  Logistically, it seems easier to determine the
details of where the $$$ goes AFTER it comes through from Tidelift to
NUMFOCUS

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 1:42 PM Joris Van den Bossche <
jorisvandenbossche at gmail.com> wrote:

> I find the idea of paying people (the core devs) for their maintenance
> work intriguing, but also see a lot of obstacles (the ones Ralf mentioned,
> what part of our volunteer time is considered maintenance work, who are
> active maintainers, do we tie certain expectations to rewarding money,
> ...?). I am not sure how it would work out in practice. In any case
> something to discuss, as we should also discuss other possible ways that we
> might want to spend the money if not paying the current maintainers.
>
> Just to be clear: even if we go with a NumFOCUS - Tidelift agreement, we
> can decide to pay ourselves instead of letting Tidelift directly do that.
> So that discussion can be done separately from deciding on going forward
> with NumFOCUS making a contract with Tidelift (I don't think I heard any
> pushback on that aspect itself, but just wanted to state this explicitly).
>
> Joris
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