@hikhvar @vaurora Even if you do have the expertise and are fully set up for self employment, I’ve also struggled to find clients who are willing to go for such a retainer model rather than a more direct payment for specific work on a feature/optimisation/etc. I mean the latter isn’t to be sniffed at, but it’s difficult to commit to e.g. signing up as a maintainer for a project subsystem when you’re only being paid for dev & upstreaming of a specific deliverable.