[jsmeaton]

This is awesome, good luck!

It's a project/business that I've suggested a few times on the mailing lists and I'm truly surprised it's taken this long for someone to start one up. I'll be interested to see how/if the price points change over time.

The pro tier is approximately equivalent to <= 5 hours of developer time per month. At a minimum it gives useful information to developers trying to communicate the cost of delay to management. I think my org may have opted just to pay at one stage, considering the migration from 1.8 to 1.11 was measured in weeks not days.

[codestasis]

Thanks! I toyed with the idea since 2014, after I was stuck managing a Django codebase with a gnarly middleware for a multi-tenanted website that precluded an easy upgrade.

I bookmarked this thread in 2019 where tptacek provided the impetus for the project with a one-liner suggestion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20378409 And I've just noticed you replied then too!

I also assumed someone would get around to it. It took a while to get to a place I could start and then way longer to develop than I assumed. (Not just the backports but the tooling, testing infra, and website)

That's good to hear on pricing since it reflects my experience and is my thinking behind the initial price points.