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What kind of money are you looking for? You mention crowdfunding, but it's not clear to me if you're looking from tens or perhaps hundreds from individual users, or tens of hundreds of thousands from institutions/corporations.

If it's the former then yes I'd back it depending on the price and what you're planning. With the latter I'm not in a position to influence my employer to participate.

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I think something around $4000 monthly would be enough for release management duties and minimal maintenance. Of course just one person part-time is not enough for large-scale changes, but for resolving regressions and just making sure contributions of other people are being merged, it's enough. I've been doing exactly that for the last half year.

So perhaps you could consider publicizing a suitable mechanism? GitHub sponsorship? Patreon? Something else?

Is X.org interested in administering this process?

It seems like there's at least some interest, you were the one that pushed me over the fence :-)

I've created a Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/p12tic.

I think it does not make sense to involve X.org as we all want as little bureaucracy as possible because all that time is better spent in software development.

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