Cloudflare pays first $301,300 from its $1 million Vite Ecosystem Fund to 44 open source projects
On November 9 Cloudflare announced the first payments from the Vite Ecosystem Fund: $301,300 shared among 44 projects and maintainers. The fund is part of a $1 million pledge Cloudflare made when VoidZero, the company behind Vite, joined it. Recipients include tools such as Babel, ESLint, Prettier, PostCSS, Rollup, pnpm and the performance group e18e, and further rounds will follow every quarter.
Read the original on Cloudflare Blog — Launching the Vite Ecosystem Fund ↗
Why it matters
Cloudflare argues that AI-written pull requests have increased the review load on maintainers, while the number of people doing reviews has not grown. Direct funding helps the small projects that much of the JavaScript tooling depends on. The recipients were picked by core team members of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc and Vite+, including maintainers who do not work for Cloudflare.
What changes
- For developers
- Core Vite stack maintainers who are not already paid for this work can invoice $50 per hour, up to $4,000 per month, for code, docs, issue triage, community support and upstream fixes.
- For businesses
- Companies that build on Vite get a clearer signal that the toolchain has long-term funding; Cloudflare runs a separate $1 million Community Engineers Fund as well.
Sources
- Cloudflare Blog — Launching the Vite Ecosystem Fund ↗ blog.cloudflare.com Primary source
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