Supporting Sphinx-Needs. What is possible?

[danwos]

First draft to collect ideas.
Text and list will get updated during discussion.

Goal: Get things done for Sphinx-Needs by allowing support via different ways (time, money, skill, ...)

Getting PRs from the community and issues solved is awesome.
But there are user of Sphinx-Needs, who don't have the needed skills or time or motivation to solve an issue.
So lets use this discussion to see if there is a need for different kinds of supporting use.

List of "support" services:

• https://issuehunt.io/ - Set bounties on issues
• https://opencollective.com/ - Collect money and spend it in a transparent way
• Github ...

Events:

• https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
• https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

[danieleades]

I've not got any personal experience with issuehunt, but I believe the general premise is to allow anyone to contribute bounties for tasks that are important to them, and anyone can collect that bounty by resolving it. It's a tool to both prioritise development important to enterprise users, and to solicit more input from the open source community.

As for the actual governance of who decides that a bounty has been earned, I have no idea. Will read up when I get a chance!

If my company adopts sphinx-needs as an internal tool I may be able to solicit bounties for issues which affect us, for example