[xwiki-users] Guidance on sponsoring
The consortium that I am currently working for is interested in using XWiki for managing its projects and performing some reporting. Supporting this is beyond my current skillset and availability, so I'm interested in sponsoring this work. I know the sponsor system is quite new, but I'd appreciate any guidance on how one should determine a reasonable fee for such work. What sort of amount is likely to generate sufficient interest from active XWiki developers? Thanks, Bryn
Hi Bryn, On 4 Dec 2014 at 01:58:25, Bryn Jeffries ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
The consortium that I am currently working for is interested in using XWiki for managing its projects and performing some reporting. Supporting this is beyond my current skillset and availability, so I'm interested in sponsoring this work. I know the sponsor system is quite new, but I'd appreciate any guidance on how one should determine a reasonable fee for such work. What sort of amount is likely to generate sufficient interest from active XWiki developers?
May I suggest that you look at the professional support page: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support The companies listed will do support but also specific/custom development. Now your other options is also to use sponsorfreedem and place one or several bounties with a price tag and hope someone from the community will pick them up. I have no idea regarding the price and what would be acceptable though, as you say it’s new. You could check the stats here https://freedomsponsors.org/stats/ and see which bounties were done and paid. You could also check the amounts listed at https://www.bountysource.com/. So you have 2 options for custom dev: - professional: more expensive but done professionally, quickly, within your schedule, with support thereafter if bugs are found - community: less expensive but not sure someone will get interested and less sure about deadlines So I guess it depends on the budget you have and your timeline. Hope it helps, -Vincent PS: Maybe we should put a FAQ with this content somewhere on xwiki.org, WDYT?
Thanks,
Bryn
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:14 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Bryn,
On 4 Dec 2014 at 01:58:25, Bryn Jeffries ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
The consortium that I am currently working for is interested in using XWiki for managing its projects and performing some reporting. Supporting this is beyond my current skillset and availability, so I'm interested in sponsoring this work. I know the sponsor system is quite new, but I'd appreciate any guidance on how one should determine a reasonable fee for such work. What sort of amount is likely to generate sufficient interest from active XWiki developers?
May I suggest that you look at the professional support page: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support
The companies listed will do support but also specific/custom development.
Now your other options is also to use sponsorfreedem and place one or several bounties with a price tag and hope someone from the community will pick them up. I have no idea regarding the price and what would be acceptable though, as you say it’s new. You could check the stats here https://freedomsponsors.org/stats/ and see which bounties were done and paid. You could also check the amounts listed at https://www.bountysource.com/.
So you have 2 options for custom dev: - professional: more expensive but done professionally, quickly, within your schedule, with support thereafter if bugs are found - community: less expensive but not sure someone will get interested and less sure about deadlines
So I guess it depends on the budget you have and your timeline.
Hope it helps, -Vincent
PS: Maybe we should put a FAQ with this content somewhere on xwiki.org, WDYT?
Indeed, maybe we should actually put freedomsponsors on http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support and link to http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support in http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing since all the listed company in supports have core committers.
Thanks,
Bryn
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Thanks Vincent, I'd missed the professional support option, and that's well worth considering. Yes, might be worth adding to the FAQ. It might also be worth giving the professional support option some prominence alongside the sponsor option on JIRA. ----- Reply message ----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: "Bryn Jeffries" <[email protected]>, "XWiki Users" <[email protected]> Subject: [xwiki-users] Guidance on sponsoring Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 19:14 Hi Bryn, On 4 Dec 2014 at 01:58:25, Bryn Jeffries ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
The consortium that I am currently working for is interested in using XWiki for managing its projects and performing some reporting. Supporting this is beyond my current skillset and availability, so I'm interested in sponsoring this work. I know the sponsor system is quite new, but I'd appreciate any guidance on how one should determine a reasonable fee for such work. What sort of amount is likely to generate sufficient interest from active XWiki developers?
May I suggest that you look at the professional support page: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support The companies listed will do support but also specific/custom development. Now your other options is also to use sponsorfreedem and place one or several bounties with a price tag and hope someone from the community will pick them up. I have no idea regarding the price and what would be acceptable though, as you say it’s new. You could check the stats here https://freedomsponsors.org/stats/ and see which bounties were done and paid. You could also check the amounts listed at https://www.bountysource.com/. So you have 2 options for custom dev: - professional: more expensive but done professionally, quickly, within your schedule, with support thereafter if bugs are found - community: less expensive but not sure someone will get interested and less sure about deadlines So I guess it depends on the budget you have and your timeline. Hope it helps, -Vincent PS: Maybe we should put a FAQ with this content somewhere on xwiki.org<http://xwiki.org>, WDYT?
Thanks,
Bryn
Hi Bryn, Yes, your requirement (custom setup/development) does seem more fitted for professional support rather than issue sponsoring (which is the purpose of our current sponsoring setup). As per Thomas' and your suggestion, I`ve updated http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing#HSponsoringissues Thanks, Eduard P.S.: I`ve somehow forgotten to press 'Send' on this mail 5 days ago :) On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Bryn Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Vincent, I'd missed the professional support option, and that's well worth considering.
Yes, might be worth adding to the FAQ. It might also be worth giving the professional support option some prominence alongside the sponsor option on JIRA.
----- Reply message ----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: "Bryn Jeffries" <[email protected]>, "XWiki Users" < [email protected]> Subject: [xwiki-users] Guidance on sponsoring Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 19:14
Hi Bryn,
On 4 Dec 2014 at 01:58:25, Bryn Jeffries ([email protected] (mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
The consortium that I am currently working for is interested in using XWiki for managing its projects and performing some reporting. Supporting this is beyond my current skillset and availability, so I'm interested in sponsoring this work. I know the sponsor system is quite new, but I'd appreciate any guidance on how one should determine a reasonable fee for such work. What sort of amount is likely to generate sufficient interest from active XWiki developers?
May I suggest that you look at the professional support page: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support
The companies listed will do support but also specific/custom development.
Now your other options is also to use sponsorfreedem and place one or several bounties with a price tag and hope someone from the community will pick them up. I have no idea regarding the price and what would be acceptable though, as you say it’s new. You could check the stats here https://freedomsponsors.org/stats/ and see which bounties were done and paid. You could also check the amounts listed at https://www.bountysource.com/.
So you have 2 options for custom dev: - professional: more expensive but done professionally, quickly, within your schedule, with support thereafter if bugs are found - community: less expensive but not sure someone will get interested and less sure about deadlines
So I guess it depends on the budget you have and your timeline.
Hope it helps, -Vincent
PS: Maybe we should put a FAQ with this content somewhere on xwiki.org< http://xwiki.org>, WDYT?
Thanks,
Bryn
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