High level plan to use funds

[siddharthkp]

Context: We have $10k of funding from the Chrome Performance Fund to support bundlesize's 1.0.0 roadmap

After talking to a few folks who have more experience running a funded open source project, this is how I'm thinking of using the funds.

Having a small core team would lead better results than creating a bounty-style format for issues.

Allocation:

• $6,000: For the implementation of the roadmap

  1 person full time (me) + 2 part time for the next 2 months (July + August)

  I feel awkward paying myself to work on bundlesize as it's "author". But, if I was working full-time on a project that I did not start, I would prefer to get paid 🤷‍♂

• $500: For folks who have helped get bundlesize to get here.

  Top 2 contributors (excluding me)+ dependencies we use (via opencollective, it's 90% Sindre)

  _I noticed this isn't common at all. I see it like a "gift" back more than a "payment"?

• $3,500: Fund the long term maintenance

  Bug fixes, issue triage, docs, review pull requests. Based on the amount of work, this should help 2 people working part time till the end of the year (maybe more)

  Edit: Ideally, these are the same folks from the implementation phase ⬆️

[siddharthkp]

cc @stubbornella @addyosmani @SaraVieira @mxstbr @developit @hzoo Would love some feedback on this.

(these are the folks I reached out for permission to tag in issues about using funds)

[mxstbr]

Having a small core team would lead better results than creating a bounty-style format for issues.

Strongly agreed!

I feel awkward paying myself to work on bundlesize as it's "author". But, if I was working full-time on a project that I did not start, I would prefer to get paid 🤷‍♂

Don't feel awkward about that, you deserve to be paid if you spend full-time working on this package while you could be making money. That's the whole point of funding people, get them to work on important packages like this full-time! (Addy, correct me if I am wrong on this)

Bug fixes, issue triage, docs, review pull requests. Based on the amount of work, this should help 2 people working part time till the end of the year (maybe more)

I think it'd make sense to make sure these are the same people already working on the implementation (probably including you), as they will have the most context around the challenges and implementation details.

[kuldeepkeshwar]

totally make sense

[SaraVieira]

Having a small core team would lead better results than creating a bounty-style format for issues.

I think so too yes.

I feel awkward paying myself to work on bundlesize as it's "author". But, if I was working full-time on a project that I did not start, I would prefer to get paid 🤷‍♂

Honestly I think this makes perfect sense if you also wanna be motivated and make the time for it

I think all of this is very well thought out now we just need to recruit the humans 😂

[addyosmani]

I just wanted to say I'm very supportive of the current plan for how to use the funds.

I know there can be a stigma associated with package maintainers getting paid via these types of donations, but if you're significantly helping move the roadmap forward, you totally deserve to get compensated :)

[Meemaw]

What happened with those funds? It seems like the project is not being maintained at all?

[siddharthkp]

Hi @Meemaw As of now, the funds are sitting in the opencollective unused. Even though the funds can help compensate contributors for their work, the contributors of the repo (including me) have day jobs that come first.

For what it's worth, I have some time blocked next month to work towards the 1.0.0 roadmap.