nicofee

nicofee, 14 days ago

@soller A while ago I wrote an explanation of the technical aspects of platform integration in KDE/Qt apps:
https://nicolasfella.de/posts/how-platform-integration-works/

You might find it useful

nicofee, 1 month ago

Say I have a full time job and I'm maintaining an open source project in my spare time. If I were to get 500€/month from donations or corporate patronage that would already be more than many projects receive. It would be nice pocket money or cover some operational expenses like server infrastructure, developer program memberships, or travel costs for conferences, but it wouldn't magically give me more hours in the day to work on the project.

nicofee, 1 month ago

If I wanted to quit my dayjob and work full-time on my project a lot more money would be needed. It should also come in a predicable and reliable manner since constantly worrying that funding might run out at any time is no help. Also, being self-employed/outside of a regular employment comes with some additional financial and administrative hurdles and risks, not everyone is willing or able to take those.

nicofee, 1 month ago

I'm in a very fortunate position where I'm getting paid to hack on KDE stuff for half my day by KDE e.V., however this is only possible because my employer @kdab allows me to work part-time. Not everyone is able to do that. Also, not everyone necessarily wants to work on their hobby project for a living. Not every project even needs full-time maintainers. But despite that other people want to rely on the software these people produce.

nicofee, 1 month ago

Paying maintainers is important, assuming the maintainers want that. But it's not as easy as it sounds and not a magical solution to "supply chain" issues.