Sponsoring¶
StackVo is free, MIT-licensed and maintained by one person, with no company behind it and no paid tier. Nothing is gated, and nothing is going to be. Sponsoring does not buy a feature; it buys the maintainer's time, and time is the one thing the project is short of.
What it pays for¶
- Time. Issues read the day they arrive, and releases that follow fixes rather than waiting for a free weekend.
- The certificates. The app is unsigned because an Apple Developer membership and an Authenticode certificate are recurring costs with an identity attached. They are the first thing sponsorship would buy, and the extra click each OS asks for on an unsigned build is what it would remove.
- The machines. Three operating systems in CI, and the ARM runners the release matrix still has to prove.
How¶
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Monthly or one-time, from the account your issues come from. Public or private, your choice.
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One-time, no account needed. The link the app itself carries in Settings.
What this project can promise¶
Stated plainly, because the alternative is letting somebody guess:
- No company behind it and no paid tier. Nothing is gated, and nothing is going to be. A sponsor gets the same app as everybody else.
- No support contract and no response-time commitment. Issues are read and most get answered; "most" is the honest word.
- Not funded today. No foundation, no full-time maintainer. Sponsoring is what changes that, and what turns "most issues get answered" into "issues get answered".
The MIT licence means the code stays available whatever happens to the maintainer; it does not mean somebody will be there to fix it. If you are deciding whether to adopt this somewhere it will be hard to leave, that is the paragraph to read twice.
Other ways to help¶
Not everything is money. A reproducible bug report, a translation, a corrected sentence in a help card, a star on the repository so that the next person finds it — each is something the project runs on.