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loduis / teamwork.com-project-management

PHP API for Teamwork.com
https://developer.teamwork.com/
MIT License
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Fundraising Campaign #58

Open simonschaufi opened 1 month ago

simonschaufi commented 1 month ago

Hello together, I'm the current maintainer of this package and I'm trying to raise some funds to keep this project up to date and since teamwork is a business application, I would appreciate a donation. Whether it is 10$ or 50$, I would appreciate any amount very much!

Donations can be done directly through GitHub or through Paypal. Thank you very much!

@zachauker @baerbro @Chrisedmo @johnny5th @Michael-Brooks @otsalko @jcandan @verypossible @MixMe

zachauker commented 1 month ago

@simonschaufi I can certainly appreciate the request for support to maintain this project, however, it seems pretty suspect to be asking for donations on a project that hasn't had a release in over half a year. Especially when the majority of said release is composed of style fixes and annotations and no real updates to the functionality of the package and does not address any of the current open issues.

This repository also isn't currently owned by you, and I've seen no indication from the owner that suggests you are the primary contributor/maintainer. I think individuals may be more inclined to contribute financially if there was any sort of roadmap or plan for how the package will be improved and updated in the future. This package was released as open source with the expectation of not being a monetized product. To the best of my knowledge, it has no official association with Teamwork Project Management, so I don't see what the distinction of it as a "business application" means in this context. I mean no disrespect by these comments, but tagging everyone who's submitted an issue on this repository to ask for money without offering any response to the code issues themselves doesn't sit right with me personally.

simonschaufi commented 1 month ago

@zachauker Thank you for your feedback!

  1. I have asked Loduis if I can maintain this repo under his username.
  2. I'm raising funds because I would like to work on the reported issues
  3. My roadmap is to make it fully compatible with PHP 8 and to make it fully compatible with the provided API of Teamwork
  4. What i mean by business application: People who are using teamwork will most likely be a company and not only a single person (Freelancer). I'm myself don't use teamwork and I would like to have at least a little bit of costs covered for my time that I invest into this project because nobody pays me for this voluntary work. Just the fact that something is open source doesn't mean you have to work on it for free.
loduis commented 3 weeks ago

Hello @simonschaufi ,

I currently have some time to maintain the project; in fact, I am in the process of restructuring the entire test base locally.

simonschaufi commented 3 weeks ago

Yes, I saw that you were very active in the past few days! Great! Since I wasn't able to raise any funds, I don't think there will be people who would like to support this project financially.

loduis commented 3 weeks ago

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What it brought back is this download data, and although it can't be monetized for now, if a good job is done, I think it might be possible. Otherwise, it remains something we can add to our resume.