cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/565123
“To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions.”
That paragraph is really vague it feels like. From reading the whole article it seems to me, their main goal is to create a company that will offer support to “corporations (with revenues that are greater than some countries GDP) [which] are building on Gitea for core products without even contributing back enhancements” similar to how Red Hat does it.
The decentralized part seems to be focused on how open source contributors get paid by this company. In my view this could also be achieved via traditional payment channels like e.g. Liberapay and this might not have to mean cryptocurrency support will be directly build into Gitea itself but maybe I’m just giving them the benefit of a doubt where none is warranted.