Progress on my open source funding experiment
Posted: Thu, 21 August 2025 | permalink | No comments
When I recently announced that I was starting an open source crowd-funding experiment, I wasn’t sure what would happen. Perhaps there’d be radio silence, or a huge out-pouring of interest from people who wanted to see more open source code in the world. What’s happened so far has been… interesting.
I chose to focus on action-validator because it’s got a number of open feature requests, and it solves a common problem that people have.
The thing is, I’ve developed and released a lot of open source over the multiple decades I’ve been noodling around with computers.
Much of that has been of use to many people, the overwhelming majority of whom I will never, ever meet, hear from, or even know that I’ve helped them out.
One person, however, I do know about – a generous soul named Andy, who (as far as I know) doesn’t use action-validator, but who does use another tool I wrote some years ago: lvmsync.
It’s somewhat niche, essentially “rsync for LVM-backed block devices”, so I’m slightly surprised that it’s my most-starred repository, at nearly 400(!) stars.
Andy is one of the people who finds it useful, and he was kind enough to reach out and offer a contribution in thanks for lvmsync existing.
In the spirit of my open source code-fund, I applied Andy’s contribution to the “general” pool, and as a result have just released action-validator v0.8.0, which supports a new --rootdir command-line option, fixing action-validator issue #54.
Everyone who uses --rootdir in their action-validator runs has Andy to thank, and I thank him too.
This is, of course, still early days in my experiment.
You can be like Andy, and make the open source world a better place, by contributing to my code-fund, and you can get your name up in lights, too.
Whether you’re an action-validator user, have gotten utility from any of the other things I’ve written, or just want to see more open source code in the world, your contribution is greatly appreciated.
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