[GitHub] [incubator-pekko] pjfanning added a comment to the discussion: On the project's stability, future and funding

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GitHub user pjfanning added a comment to the discussion: On the project's stability, future and funding

The whole sponsorship/funding side is a bit of a grey area. ASF need [sponsorship](https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks) to provide their services (infrastructure, security reporting, legal, events, etc.).

* In the real world, companies do hire people to work on open source and some people in the Pekko team have said that their companies are allowing them some hours to work on Pekko related work. I'll let them comment here.
* I have had contacts from 2 large companies with an interest in seeing Pekko released but did not discuss funding with them. At least with 1 of them, they are an ASF sponsor so they might feel like this is enough. There may be lots more. The FOSDEM conference at the weekend may see some interest in the Pekko stint on the Apache desk.
* It is open for people to set up their own business to support Pekko full or part time.
   * The ASF sponsoring links will have to be prominent on our web site and I'm not sure if we can also advertise sponsoring links for individual committers.
   * We might be able to add a page that lists companies active in the space.
   * Individuals could set up sponsoring links on their own Github profiles - companies/individuals looking to sponsor developer contributions should be able to find the developer accounts readily

There is a fair amount of work to do get Pekko v1.0.0 released (Akka rebadged as Pekko but with few changes from last Apache licensed releases) - and there is a little bit of pent up demand to update dependencies and fix a few bugs, so a v1.1.0 release that has some changes, that may require a little more care when uptaking, should arrive fairly quickly afterwards. Scala 3 support for pekko-http has been deferred to this v1.1.0 release, for instance, but this work is already largely done - just waiting for the conservative v1.0.0 release before it is merged into the main branch.

I haven't come across any pent up demand to do any major changes. 


GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/discussions/144#discussioncomment-4861894

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