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Paying a maintainer must not buy a say in the project’s direction; funding and governance have to be kept as separate as possible.
Drawn from what Filippo Valsorda said
Subjectopen source
What Filippo Valsorda actually said
- Filippo Valsorda Cryptographer, formerly of the Go team at Google
Governance is a delicate and complex topic, and you want to leave it as orthogonal as possible to funding.
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↗How to pay professional maintainerswords.filippo.io
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