Does that mean that we shouldn’t have a dedicated person working full-time on VSCode? Or at least someone that gets paid to work on specific projects?
Let me say it out loud: @davidanthoff is underappreciated.
He is responsible for core pillars of this open source community, including the VSCode extension, the juliaup installer, and many other crucial projects that he maintains on his free time (as far as I know).
Why does it need to be that way though? What is the role of JuliaHub in all this? Does the word “Hub” in JuliaHub refers to a hub for business only? Do we need a separate organization to serve as a true hub of support for the community of users, consultants, and small businesses that are fighting out there alone?
My understanding is that there’s no formal relationship between JuliaHub and Julia governance. Several of the individuals there are Julia contributors, and JuliaHub donates some amount of money or resources. But it’s not like JuliaHub is hiring people to work on Julia full time, and most of the things their employees do are probably informed by what their customers want.
Julia itself is governed by the Julia Stewards Donations to Julia are usually made through NumFOCUS: Julia Governance
It is not true that selected members were chosen from various different organizations. Most of them work at JuliaHub. When they are not with JuliaHub, they are with MIT or some partner lab. This is hardly representative of the Julia community as a whole. The financial resources are managed by Avik, who is also working at JuliaHub?
Just to be clear, the Stewards do not “govern” Julia, direct development, make technical decisions, hire personnel, or allocate funding — their only role is mediating interpersonal conflicts in Julia forums according to the Julia Community Standards.
@avik can you please share the criteria you use to fund open source Julia projects with NumFOCUS resources? How are you engaging with the different Julia organizations on GitHub and elsewhere? Is this part of your role? Who’s role is this?
Is there a list of past and present projects selected by the current criteria? Where can we find this information?
Can we do anything to help @davidanthoff and @pfitzseb with the VSCode extension, debugger, etc?
