Bonjour,
Now that the Hostea governance is set it would be nice for people discovering the project to follow its activity and understand how it operates, how the core values are upheld in practice. Although it still is in a very experimental stage, a pattern emerges from the discussions in the Clinic forum, the blog posts, the contributions to Gitea and the Gitea upgrade issues being treated at the Clinic.
- The service activity is paid by the hour to every Hostea member. There is no income at the moment and Hostea is in debt with its members but what nobody works for free.
- A share of this income is dedicated to contributing to Gitea.
- The rest is dedicated to developing Hostea itself.
Here is how it manifests itself on a simple actual use case:
- A Gitea upgrade from 1.11 to 1.16 is paid for and takes 2h30m. Service paid: 50%
- On that occasion a bug is found in
gitea doctorand fixed in Gitea which takes 1h. Gitea contribution: 25% - It turned out to be difficult to figure out which database version matches which Gitea version while preparing the upgrade because the version that was installed did not match a release tag. A table mapping Gitea versions to the expected database versions is contributed to the HOWTO Gitea upgrades, a guide for admins document which takes 1h30. Hostea contribution: 25%
It is currently quite difficult to figure that out. Since the Hostea activity is not overwhelming at the moment, the most user friendly way to make this digestable for the visitor would probably be to have a manually updated page at https://hostea.org that shows something like:
| Updated | Work | Paid service 50% | Gitea contribution 25% | Hostea contribution 25% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-28 | 5h | Gitea upgrade from 1.11 to 1.16 | bug fix | Add version table to the Hostea admin guide |
| … | … | … | … | … |
What do you think?