[emidln]

Perhaps you should chip in some time or dollars to help maintain a release version. The great thing about open source is that if you care enough, you can help yourself (either directly through code maintenance or indirectly via funding someone else).

The only unprofessional thing is the entitlement to someone else's time.

[porker]

> Perhaps you should chip in some time or dollars to help maintain a release version. The great thing about open source is that if you care enough, you can help yourself (either directly through code maintenance or indirectly via funding someone else).

I wish there was an easy way to crowdfund maintained releases. I've been burned by 3 frameworks moving on with no backwards-compatibility; that was worth money to myself & my business to keep them maintained.

Unfortunately, not enough to hire someone full-time or coordinate it (the original developers in all cases had no interest).

Does this exist?

[seangrogg]

While it's not an exact match, patreon.com more or less does this in letting people crowdsource one-time/monthly payments to a person in exchange for their works. I know several musicians, youtubers, and social media personalities that have used it to varying degrees of success.