What about FOSS one knows well and can support but hasn't coded for? Like, I'm real good at Samba and GlusterFS and Hylafax - and/or they may not even be on GitHub?
Excellent work here, going in the right direction.
Excellent work here, going in the right direction.
https://www.samba.org/samba/support/
Edit: GlusterFS has one too:
https://www.gluster.org/community/consultants/
Edit: unfortunately iFAX doesn't list other companies on the HylaFAX support page, but probably being active on their community support could get customers.
I'm wondering what Ringer will do for these kind of case.
Or if Ringer is only for GitHub libraries, or smaller projects or...
I want to allow it, but I need to work out a way to do so whilst making sure that we don't end up with a free for all - that means manual review perhaps, but I agree that it would be very helpful if we can make it work.
Re GitHub - we've built on GitHub initially but would love to extend to other platforms in time!
I would say to maybe allow verified contributors/experts to invite others in under their account, and let them work from that context until they have enough feedback that they should be invited to join independently of their previous sponsor. My only real doubt is that even being a known contributor is going to be gamed unless there are clear processes for vetting and distinguishing between even the people who are verified contributors to a project, because some will be experts and some will not be.