@chrisjrn @webology @offby1 @hynek @coderanger also given the immediate brand damage that Fastly would sustain if they pulled their support, I believe the folks that would advocate internally to keep the program running will not have difficulty doing so. It’s probably not *fair* that the reward for years of donations is getting blamed for the immediate crisis in the aftermath of the well running dry, but so it goes.
@glyph @chrisjrn @webology @offby1 @hynek @coderanger FWIW, I think there's absolutely a way that this can be a graceful changeover -- it's not necessary that moving away from Fastly would be disruptive to PyPI users. It's not a given that they'd pull support without sufficient notice such that it requires a panicked/immediate response.
They could just be like "Hey, in 6 months, we're gonna stop providing this for free" -- there'll be work to do but it can end up being fine?
@pradyunsg @glyph @chrisjrn @webology @offby1 @hynek @coderanger
In fact, it is to my understanding based on the below clip of Fastly's sponsor spot announcement at PyCon US this year that there is a contract of some kind that commits to 5 years of support, which is fantastic.