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<h1 id="funding"><a class="toclink" href="#funding">Funding</a></h1>
<p>If you use REST framework commercially we strongly encourage you to invest in its continued development by signing up for a paid plan.</p>
<p><strong>We believe that collaboratively funded software can offer outstanding returns on investment, by allowing users and clients to collectively share the cost of development.</strong></p>
<p>Signing up for a paid plan will:</p>
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<li>Directly contribute to faster releases, more features and higher quality software.</li>
<li>Allow more time to be invested in documentation, issue triage and community support.</li>
<li>Safeguard the future development of REST framework.</li>
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<p>REST framework will always be open source and permissively licensed, but we firmly believe it is in the commercial best-interest for users of the project to fund its ongoing development.</p>
<hr />
<h2 id="making-the-business-case"><a class="toclink" href="#making-the-business-case">Making the business case</a></h2>
<p>Our successful Kickstarter campaign demonstrates the cost-reward ratio of shared development funding.</p>
<p>With <em>typical corporate fundings of just £100-£1000 per organization</em> we successfully delivered:</p>
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<li>The comprehensive 3.0 serializer redesign.</li>
<li>Substantial improvements to the Browsable API.</li>
<li>The admin interface.</li>
<li>A new pagination API including offset/limit and cursor pagination implementations, plus on-page controls.</li>
<li>A versioning API, including URL-based and header-based versioning schemes.</li>
<li>Support for customizable exception handling.</li>
<li>Support for Django's PostgreSQL HStoreField, ArrayField and JSONField.</li>
<li>Templated HTML form support, including HTML forms with nested list and objects.</li>
<li>Internationalization support for API responses, currently with 27 languages.</li>
<li>The metadata APIs for handling <code>OPTIONS</code> requests and schema endpoints.</li>
<li>Numerous minor improvements and better quality throughout the codebase.</li>
<li>Ongoing triage and community support, closing over 1600 tickets.</li>
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<p>This incredible level of return on investment is <em>only possible through collaboratively funded models</em>, which is why we believe that supporting our paid plans is in everyone's best interest.</p>
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<h2 id="individual-plan"><a class="toclink" href="#individual-plan">Individual plan</a></h2>
<p>This subscription is recommended for freelancers and other individuals with an interest in seeing REST framework continue to&nbsp;improve.</p>
<p>If you are using REST framework as an full-time employee, consider recommending that your company takes out a <a href="#corporate-plans">corporate&nbsp;plan</a>.</p>
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<p>In exchange for funding you'll also receive advertising space on our site, allowing you to <strong>promote your company or product to many tens of thousands of developers worldwide</strong>.</p>
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<h2 id="roadmap"><a class="toclink" href="#roadmap">Roadmap</a></h2>
<p>Although we're incredibly proud of REST framework in its current state we believe there is still huge scope for improvement. What we're aiming for here is a <em>highly polished, rock solid product</em>. This needs to backed up with impeccable documentation and a great third party ecosystem.</p>
<p>The roadmap below is a broad indication of just some of the ongoing and future work we believe is important to REST framework.</p>
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<li>Increasing our "bus factor" through documented organizational process &amp; safeguards.</li>
<li>More time towards testing and hardening releases, with only gradual, well-documented deprecations.</li>
<li>A formal policy on security backports for non-current releases.</li>
<li>Continuing triage &amp; community support.</li>
<li>Improved project documentation, including versioned &amp; internationalized docs.</li>
<li>Improved third party package visibility.</li>
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<li>Support for alternative backends such as SQLAlchemy.</li>
<li>Support for non-database backed services.</li>
<li>HTTP Caching API &amp; support for conditional database lookups.</li>
<li>Benchmarking and performance improvements.</li>
<li>In depth documentation on advanced usage and best practices.</li>
<li>Documentation &amp; support for integration with realtime systems.</li>
<li>Hypermedia support and client libraries.</li>
<li>Bringing support for features such as content negotiation into Django core.</li>
<li>Better support and documentation for 12 factor auth setups, and getting your project into production.</li>
<li>Support for JSON schema as endpoints or <code>OPTIONS</code> responses.</li>
<li>API metric tools.</li>
<li>Debug &amp; logging tools.</li>
<li>Third party GraphQL support.</li>
<li>Cleaning up internal complexities.</li>
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<p>At this point work is intended to have a strong focus on stability and support, and be slightly less feature-driven than previous iterations.</p>
<p>There is also scope for some future-focused work that improves the surrounding API ecosystem. This could include bringing aspects of REST framework to alternative languages, work on hypermedia formats and client tooling, or pre-configured projects for deploying REST framework as a hosted API service.</p>
<p>By taking out a paid plan you'll be directly contributing towards making these features happen, and ensuring REST framework remains sustainable and well supported.</p>
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