digitalmars.D.announce - Our New Pull Request and Issue Manager
- Mike Parker (29/29) Apr 08 A few months ago, Razvan stepped away from his PR and Issue
- ryuukk_ (2/31) Apr 08 Thanks to everyone at WEKA, very generous indeed!
- Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole (2/2) Apr 08 Thank you WEKA!
- Mike Shah (3/9) Apr 08 Thank you Weka, Symmetry, and the D Community. Congratulations
- Elias (3/13) Apr 08 Excellent, big thanks to them!
- Guillaume Piolat (2/6) Apr 08 Thanks for everyone involved, awesome news!
A few months ago, Razvan stepped away from his PR and Issue Manager role and into a new one as our Project Coordinator. That left Dennis working the job alone. Without additional funding, there would be no way for us to hire on someone new to take over Razvan's empty spot. Today I can finally announce that funding for the new hire has materialized, courtesy of WEKA. I can also publicly welcome Nicholas Wilson to the DLF team. He's been doing part of the job for quite some time on a volunteer basis, reviewing PRs across our repositories. Now that he's getting paid for it, you can feel free to pester him about your most annoying open issues and PRs and we can throw more work at him! WEKA has also generously agreed to step up their funding for DConf '25. We're facing increased costs across the board and were looking at the real possibility of a significant increase in the registration fee. The additional funding from WEKA allowed us to actually lower the fee to $300 instead. Additionally, they have taken over a percentage of the funding for the existing sponsored positions which are primarily funded by Symmetry. We're extremely grateful for the support both Symmetry and WEKA are providing us, and for all of the smaller scale support from all of the donors across PayPal, Open Collective, GitHub, and elsewhere. (For the record, all four sponsored staff--Razvan, Dennis, Nicholas, and myself--are paid for 20 hours per week. I receive $12,000/yr in sponsored funds and $14,400/yr from the general donor pool. Razvan, Dennis, and Nicholas each receive $25,000/yr in sponsored funds.)
Apr 08
ryuukk_ <ryuukk.dev gmail.com> On Tuesday, 8 April 2025 at 09:00:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:A few months ago, Razvan stepped away from his PR and Issue Manager role and into a new one as our Project Coordinator. That left Dennis working the job alone. Without additional funding, there would be no way for us to hire on someone new to take over Razvan's empty spot. Today I can finally announce that funding for the new hire has materialized, courtesy of WEKA. I can also publicly welcome Nicholas Wilson to the DLF team. He's been doing part of the job for quite some time on a volunteer basis, reviewing PRs across our repositories. Now that he's getting paid for it, you can feel free to pester him about your most annoying open issues and PRs and we can throw more work at him! WEKA has also generously agreed to step up their funding for DConf '25. We're facing increased costs across the board and were looking at the real possibility of a significant increase in the registration fee. The additional funding from WEKA allowed us to actually lower the fee to $300 instead. Additionally, they have taken over a percentage of the funding for the existing sponsored positions which are primarily funded by Symmetry. We're extremely grateful for the support both Symmetry and WEKA are providing us, and for all of the smaller scale support from all of the donors across PayPal, Open Collective, GitHub, and elsewhere. (For the record, all four sponsored staff--Razvan, Dennis, Nicholas, and myself--are paid for 20 hours per week. I receive $12,000/yr in sponsored funds and $14,400/yr from the general donor pool. Razvan, Dennis, and Nicholas each receive $25,000/yr in sponsored funds.)Thanks to everyone at WEKA, very generous indeed!
Apr 08
Thank you WEKA! And thank you to Symmetry and other sponsors!
Apr 08
On Tuesday, 8 April 2025 at 09:00:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:A few months ago, Razvan stepped away from his PR and Issue Manager role and into a new one as our Project Coordinator. That left Dennis working the job alone. Without additional funding, there would be no way for us to hire on someone new to take over Razvan's empty spot. [...]Thank you Weka, Symmetry, and the D Community. Congratulations Nicholas!
Apr 08
On Tuesday, 8 April 2025 at 09:00:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:Today I can finally announce that funding for the new hire has materialized, courtesy of WEKA. I can also publicly welcome Nicholas Wilson to the DLF team. He's been doing part of the job for quite some time on a volunteer basis, reviewing PRs across our repositories. Now that he's getting paid for it, you can feel free to pester him about your most annoying open issues and PRs and we can throw more work at him!Awesome! :)[…] the support both Symmetry and WEKA are providing us, and for all of the smaller scale support from all of the donors across PayPal, Open Collective, GitHub, and elsewhere.Excellent, big thanks to them!
Apr 08
On Tuesday, 8 April 2025 at 09:00:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:We're extremely grateful for the support both Symmetry and WEKA are providing us, and for all of the smaller scale support from all of the donors across PayPal, Open Collective, GitHub, and elsewhere.Thanks for everyone involved, awesome news!
Apr 08