Pay for developers didn't make sense

[tejgop]

I got confused because the form for bower contributions asked "how much do you expect per hour?" so I left it blank. Can someone please elaborate on the amount and where the money is coming from and how the developers will get it?

I think pay for developers in an open source project doesn't really make sense.

[sheerun]

For now there are no sponsors except Artifactory that is willing to sponsor #505

What's wrong with paying for open source work?

[tejgop]

If we are sure that the sponsors will stay then there is no problem. The problem arises when everyone expects pay but there are no sponsors/donators. That is how many open source projects become proprietary/paid software.

[tejgop]

I didn't know there were sponsors, I thought it was 100% random donations, so I guess there is no problem.

[sheerun]

Contributing to bower is always voluntary by default. Sponsorship makes sense only for few persons to work on maintaining a project or contributing in continuous way. See Ghost / NPM / neovim / Apache foundations / Mozilla / other open source foundations. I'd like to see it in bower as well.

I think this question can be little misleading, so I removed it from the form. Thank you for feedback.