Opened 3 months ago
Last modified 3 months ago
#1445 new enhancement
Donation?
| Reported by: | Sean M. Brannon | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | wiki | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Hello. First off, thank you very much for this project. I have used it for quite some time to monitor my home storage, and, in a previous life long ago, as a sysadmin to monitor the storage under my care. Smartmontools is a unique, in my experience, open source package that I am sure has saved the data of many a person and organization. The closest equivalent I have come across is a commercial tool called SMARTMon-UX by SANtools (www.santools.com).
I looked around smartmontools' various web pages, both here and on SourceForge?, and couldn't find a way to donate financially to the project. While just a single person, I thought I could donate at least a small amount to help defray the hosting costs. Do you have a means for me to do this?
Again, thank you very much for smartmontools!
First of all, thank you for your mail. It is very uncommon in the OSS community to get such, usually, e-mails are demanding to fix something :) And I am very glad that you found smartmontools useful.
I can't speak for the entire team, but at least for the hosting currently, no donations are needed. At the moment I am hosting the project on my server, which I am using for other tasks, so it is not adding anything to the bill. Also, we had a negotiation with Digital Ocean who has an OSS support program, but after all, I decided to keep things as is. I am more concerned about track development status and py2 EoL (see #1419). To me, it also would be more important to get more project developers, as we have several things to improve (see https://www.smartmontools.org/report/1), some OS without active maintainers and some outdated ports.
I will keep the ticket open to make sure that other smartmontools project members can share their thoughts.