Dear Sphinx community,
I’m maintainer of an extension called Sphinx-Needs and I support companies in Germany to setup and integrate Sphinx in their internal processes and CI systems. In this job you realize day by day how important Sphinx became for companies and their development teams. Only in one company hundreds of engineers do their documentation with it and build Sphinx based websites dozens times a day. Sphinx is awesome. On the other hand I also see the problems bigger teams have with Sphinx and more important, which features are needed to support bigger, decentralized teams even more. Stuff you normally not need in smaller teams, e.g. process driven topics, secured executions for functional safety, page/file responsibilities, data driven automation. And I ask myself, if there is a way Sphinx could take benefit from its usage in commercial projects and higher the amount of available development power. Maybe Takeshi Komiya and others would love to “outsource” some smaller pieces or get paid for their priceless commitment :). A lot of famous open-source tools have gone this way. Django got the Django foundation. Blender also and they have this awesome fund-page: https://fund.blender.org/. OBS-Studio, a tool for webcam streaming, is using https://opencollective.com/obsproject/ to collect money and they got Twitch and Facebook as main sponsors. And the amount of money they get is not small. Blender gets ~90.000 € per month and have a paid development team of ~10 guys. In my eyes Sphinx is important enough for so many companies, that some kind of a sponsoring model could work. So what do you thing? Any concerns or bad feelings? Any ideas what the sphinx community should test? Or is all of this not needed? Cheers, Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sphinx-users/4d5b529e-017b-4d0c-91bf-8b7b87cb7bab%40googlegroups.com.
