[gdal-dev] Motion: ReadTheDocs Financial Support

[Howard Butler]

> On Apr 17, 2025, at 2:10 PM, Daniel Baston <dbaston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Howard,
> 
> I agree that RTD is useful for our project. Given the recent funding for two documentation contributors, the pull request previews that RTD provides will be especially helpful.
> 
> Still, I'd argue the project most essential for our docs is Sphinx itself. Do you know if/how dollars sent to RTD make their way to Sphinx maintenance? Or should we consider supporting Sphinx maintenance in some way? Maybe this isn't an either/or, I don't know what our ideal budget for these things is.

I agree Sphinx is a priority need for our projects just as Breathe is, but it doesn't appear Sphinx has clear financial infrastructure beyond GitHub Sponsors. I don't know if that is the appropriate place to put financial resources to work for the project. If you want to work through finding someone to be able to take resources and help to manage them using them to move the project forward, we should explore that avenue as well. 

RTD has the ability to send us an invoice, and that ultimately means a lot as far as being able to send money places and have it be effective.

Howard