[GitHub] [cordova] brodybits opened a new issue #163: Sustainability of Cordova maintenance

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brodybits opened a new issue #163: Sustainability of Cordova maintenance
URL: https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/163
 
 
   I would like to flag this as a critical issue.
   
   We have been adding one maintainer after another but continue to suffer from a lack of resources so badly needed to keep up with bug reports and the rapidly changing mobile platform APIs.
   
   I think we need to have some sponsorship of the most important maintenance tasks including:
   
   - timely updates to keep up with the mobile platform APIs
   - bug fixes
   - documentation
   - community support
   - modernization and cleanup of the existing JavaScript
   
   I think the root cause is the loss of backing from a couple major companies.
   
   We have discussed some ideas on the mailing list including:
   
   - CodeFund.io
   - [GitHub sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors) (unfortunately it tells me to join a wait list)
   - Tidelift (I tried https://tidelift.com/lifter/search/npm/cordova-lib but it shows me a "needs subscribers" message)
   
   We also discussed Bountysource but it does not seem to be right for project *sustainability*.
   
   I think it would be ideal if some of the biggest corporate users would be willing to give something back to help us improve the sustainability.
   
   Unfortunately the Apache Foundation "sponsorship" program does not seem prepared to support our needs on updates and bug fixes: http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html#FundsGo
   
   I do understand and respect that we would likely need to coordinate this kind of an effort with the Apache Foundation.
   
   I think this is especially bad in comparison to competitive frameworks such as Capacitor and React Native which do seem to have stronger corporate backing.
   
   While the original goal was to "cease to exist", I think lack of sustainability is not the way we want to reach this result.
   
   I would also like to vote +1 to pin this issue in first place.

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