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Treasury proposal: funding upstream open source projects that make Polkadot possible
Polkadot is not a castle in the sky. It builds upon, and uses other countless open source projects developed and maintained by other open source developers. Those upstream open source projects make Polkadot possible, and as a result, it is important that we support them.
This proposal is a set of bounties and treasury spending proposals aiming at using Polkadot treasury for upstream projects. It includes:
- Treasury proposing fee bounty for upstream
- Direct dependency maintenance bounty
- Upstream toolchain sponsorship proposals
- Upstream ecosystem project sponsorship proposals
This includes Polkadot codebase's direct dependencies (not managed by the core team), the toolchain that builds Polkadot (Rust, LLVM, GNU toolchain, Linux), and ecosystem projects that Polkadot users usually depend on (Firefox, Matrix chat, GNUPG). It's currently for discussions and other projects may be added. The current estimation for this proposal amounts to around 1 million USD equivalent annually. All numbers are of course subject to change.
You can read the full proposal here: https://that.world/~wei/polkadot/council/upstream/
Comments (3)
This is excellent - I am all for sustainable open source. Follows in the footsteps of Concordium's devX initiative to fund rust maintainers.
We should be doing this yearly or whatever, yes absolutely. I think the Mozilla Foundation has turned into a cash bonfire. Also, they spun off Rust and seemingly Servo already, not sure what forward looking work remains there. Instead, I'd suggest the Servo project https://servo.org/ who accepts infrastructure funding donations through the Linux foundation. We can ask how Servo's ongoing development is funded maybe?