Babel used by millions, so why are we running out of money? Bluntly: Because funds were misallocated for years, and the project has been too slow to improve.

The reason there's no money is because someone took a $130k annual salary and didn't actually work on the project.

I am sitting on an ivory tower so I know this is a terrible look. The elephant in the room is being ignored and it's hard to see so much sympathy for a self-inflicted problem that isn't being honestly publicly addressed.

I'm just going to be explicit. In 2020, Henry created 12 issues, commented 25 times, and created 29 pull requests. This is across all Babel orgs.

Sorry but that's DEFINITELY not $132k worth of work. Especially when there are other contributors who are working for free doing much more. Obviously everything isn't on GitHub, there's work in private but it is representative.

I raised this in March when I looked into it and noticed that for the first two months of the year he had left only two brief comments and created no comments.

The answer was apparently to just reduce salary and try to raise more money rather than address the root problem.

I'm being explicit now since vague tweeting allegations isn't productive. This is upsetting because it's so hard to get funding for OSS and the mismanagement hurts everyone.

The salary amount isn't unreasonable or excessive. It's the lack of material output that makes it unjustified.