How to contribute money to the development of the project?

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Well. I think, we now have enough votes on the importance of this issue.

How can we get ahead now?

I myself cannot do the coding, but I’m very well willing to give a little money. Hopefully, other fellows do as well. IMHO, there should be

  • a good description of the issue (could be extracted from this thread)
  • a collection of money
  • a call for offerings
  • coding
  • code review and introduction

AFAIK, we do not have any structure to do so, but I think we should. And I think there should be a reward for the work on code review. I would be ashamed to request all that for free.

Cheers,
Wolf

2

For now the only option is to hire a service provider to do the coding for you or to do the coding by yourself. In case of hiring a service provider there is not guarantee that such development will be contributed to the project.

3

GitHub OSS projects usually manage this via GitHub Sponsors.

See this example.
In this case Alex creates an issue that he is willing to pay for and a developer creates the PR assigning himself to work on it.

That said, the maintainer/petitioner could end not paying or, like Sergi said, there is no guarantee of merging the developers work into the main branch of the project.
A common case that could happen would be if the petitioner requests a new feature while being on the LTS 6.0 but new features are only implemented for the (current) 6.7 branch (6.8 to be).

I think maybe Tryton could provide a bounty wall on the forum once/if the discussion on non-official modules settles. The petitioner would create the issue and the bounty post.