Integrate npm

[chadwhitacre]

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✈️ This is the flight deck for the Integrate npm project. ✈️

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Current open-source crowdfunding options (Kickstarter, Patreon, Gratipay, OpenCollective, etc.) are consumer-grade. Our hunch is that a business-grade product with better aggregation can better serve the companies that want to pay for open source, because companies use hundreds or thousands of open source packages, not just a few.

Picking up from https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/4135#issuecomment-255122149 and https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/852#issuecomment-255098337 ...

For wider context see:

• The fundamental idea is to get a viral loop going again like we had under Gittipay 1.0.
• The burn I feel

JavaScript is the most popular language in open source and npm is the most popular package manager for JavaScript. A good first concrete step towards helping companies pay for open source (#4135), therefore, will be to add the ability to pay for any package on npm. Once we have npm deployed, we will have enough experience to inform a partnership with Libraries.io for the rest of the package managers.

Target

Our goal is to announce this feature in my lightning talk on Thursday, October 26 at Red Hat's All Things Open conference (https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/757).

Our goal is to incrementally improve this feature throughout the first half of 2017, with an eye towards OSCON and $ustain in May.

Package names to test with

From https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/4135#issuecomment-262672635:

http://localhost:8537/on/npm/async/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/iframe-resizer/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/mongoose/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/nodemon/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/react/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/react-helmet/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/react-modal/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/react-redux/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/react-router/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/react-router-redux/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/redux/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/redux-thunk/ http://localhost:8537/on/npm/webpack/

Todo

Prerequisites

• [x] Land the Decouple milestone—https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/432
• [x] Finish Project Basics—https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/milestone/18

Checkpoint 1: Inert /on/npm/foo/ Pages

• [x] wrap marky-markdown (#4154)
• [x] load up npm (#4153, #4158)
• [x] load up npm readmes (#4159, #4160, #4161, #4162, #4164, #4176, #4179, #4180, #4181, #4182)
• [x] stop storing readmes after all (#4211)
• [x] add inert (can't actually give to them) /on/npm/foo pages (#4212)

Checkpoint 2: Giving to Packages

• [ ] link packages to teams (#4155)
• [ ] opt in or out from /on/npm/foo/ pages via email verification
• [ ] add payment widget on /on/npm/foo/ pages

Checkpoint 3: Easy Sign-up

• [ ] bulk manage payments from /on/npm/ pages

Nice to Have

• [x] move search into {% content %} (leaving social network jump in sidebar)
• [ ] merge current result types together (~user via username, ~user via profile statement)
• [ ] add Teams to local index for inclusion in results
• [ ] mix npm packages into search (#4147)
• [ ] pledging to as-yet-unclaimed packages
• [ ] load up npm incrementally (reticket from #4153)
• [ ] deal intelligently with unpublished packages (reticket from https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/issues/4148#issuecomment-256525647)
• [ ] we seem to get two H1s on https://www.npmjs.com/package/resize-img
• [ ] syntax highlight

Promotion

• [ ] update the "★ announcement ★" link (#4149)
• [ ] Publish a blog post.
• [ ] Promote the heck out of it!

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✈️ This is the flight deck for the Integrate npm project. ✈️

[chadwhitacre]

Honestly this is probably going to go into April or May, but we can take that as it comes. :-)

[aandis]

I'd really like to see this happening on gratipay so I am ready to help as much as I can. We need a development plan so that things are moving along.

[mattbk]

I've put both projects on the calendar

This would be more useful in Gantt chart format, IMO. The calendar is cool for events, but in terms of lining up work, it's just a bunch of blue bars to me.

ETA: Don't take that as a personal feature request. If I want it bad enough I'll figure it out.

[chadwhitacre]

Conversation about product developement and wire-framing, might try https://gomockingbird.com/.

[chadwhitacre]

Closing per https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/987#issuecomment-272985143.