Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo speaking here. 👋

Summary

By sponsoring Machina, you're allowing me, Thiago, to take time away from my day job to work on Apache Tapestry, be it creating new features, cutting releases, triaging and fixing bugs and/or documentation. It's also a way to thank me if my work on Tapestry or presence in mailing lists and elsewhere helped you or your company.

Machina TI Ltda is Thiago's one-person company.

Disclaimers

This sponsorship campaign is done by me, Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo, as an independent individual, not by the Apache Software Foundation nor the Apache Tapestry project. I'm not representing the Foundation in any way in this campaign, nor does Apache endorse it. The Foundation has a policy of not paying for development work. All its members are voluntary, me included. Any code I'll write or change will have to pass the usual Tapestry team approval process. If this sponsorship campaign isn't funded, I'll continue participating in the Tapestry project in the same way as before (i.e. just in my free time).

Introduction

I love working on Tapestry stuff. It's been a passion for me since I first met it around 2006. I'd love to be able to spend more time working on it, but, other than the occasional commission, I'm only able to work on the project on my free time, so progress on my Tapestry projects and tasks has been slow. It would be more healthy for me, and I believe for the Tapestry project too, if I could also work on it during commercial hours. I'd say it would be also more professional.

My initial goal is to raise enough money for me to take one whole day off my day job every 2 weeks (one sprint) and spend it, without any obstructions, on Tapestry.

How the sponsorship will work

For every 300 dollars raised, cumulatively since the beginning of this sponsorship campaign, I take half a day off my day job to work on Tapestry, with an initial limit of 8 hours per each 2 week period. If, for example, 100 dollars are raised in the first 2 weeks (half day not reached) and 500 in the next 2 weeks (full day reached), I work on Tapestry a full day during the 3rd 2-week period.

My initial idea is to focus on the day-to-day project stuff which may not be shiny but is extremely important: triaging and fixing bugs, specially the occasional security vulnerability, cutting releases (release early, release often!), reviewing pull requests, improving the tooling and contributor experience (both for Tapestry committers and other people who want to contribute) and documentation, which needs to move away from being an awkward export from Confluence (Tapestry's wiki) to something else which is both better and easier for everyone to contribute through pull requests.

I have a very long habit of using time tracking software (right now, I've got 29000 logged hours), so, after every day funded by this sponsorship, I'm going to publish which tasks I worked on and how long.

Questions

Feel free to e-mail me at thiago<at>arsmachina.com.br for any questions about this sponsorship campaign. If I get enough questions, I'll create a FAQ here.