Hello everyone,
Please donāt judge this thread by its cover, I kinda expect the answer to be āWELL IT DEPENDSā, but I have some deeper interrogations about Yunohost contributions Iād like to discuss with you
Initial context
I currently work at Latitudes, a french NGO working to change the tech world by encouraging its actors to commit to positive impact projects and helping them to know and understand the externalities of tech !
My job is to create a solid tech / product base for the NGO, but it is a short term mission and in a few months the structure may not have a person working full-time on tech.
For this reason, I strongly believe that the use of Yunohost is perfect for our structure, as it allows a very simple installation and maintenance for apps, and make the need for a real tech expert limited. This fits our need : not having to pay an expert full-time, but still managing most of the daily operations !
Our current need
We want to go further in our use of yunohost, with :
- the self hosting of our DB and a new instance of NextCloud
- a bigger infra with several servers for backups and resilience
Not sth extremely ambitious, but still a step further what we currently do.
Yet weāre limited by the fact that the technology we use for the DB & backend does not belong to the list of Yunohost apps.
By chance, we have many partners (both volunteers and companies) that would be willing to help, namely by packaging and maintaining the app weād like to use.
And this is where my question stands : to correctly explain to our partners what the effort of committing to help us and the community would be, Iād like to roughly understand :
- What the effort of getting into Yunohost packaging approximatively is (for several level of expertise, from someone with a basic knowledge of linux servers to an SRE expert)
- What the effort of packaging a simple app involving just 2 - 3 services would be (here too with different level of expertise)
- What are the expectable efforts of maintenance for an app package ?
Sorry if I sound like like a very naive project manager asking for numbers
But as a structure which believes a lot in data privacy, open source and self hosting, weād love to get involved in the Yunohost community, but to do that we need to know what to ask to our own community of partners
(mainly to avoid volunteer enthusiasm at start that ends up in a non maintained package, by stating what to expect from the beginning )
Thanks a lot for your help, once again we really love what you do and the volunteer efforts put in Yunohost and I hope weāll have the opportunity to contribute ourselves !
EDIT : oh and if anyoneās willing to discuss this topic / our structure commitment orally, Iād be happy to organize this, in french or english, and even for an IRL coffee if youāre around Paris, France