Hi, Thanks for your reply. I wouldn’t really see this as spamming. It will be only two extra lines at the end of a Maven build, with an easy opt-out (env var or sys prop) for anyone who prefers not to see it. It seems essential to keep it independent of vendors (GitHub, Sonatype, etc.). A few lines (link to url which could be simply GH funding url) in the POM keep it simple and entirely under the project’s control, avoiding the hassle of new files, signatures, or repository manager checks. It feels like a lightweight way to surface funding or support options for open source projects. Since open source often relies on unpaid time and effort, having an easy mechanism to point to support opportunities could be a small but helpful step.
On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 at 02:02, Bernd Eckenfels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Martin Todorov wrote on 22. Aug 2025 13:14 (GMT +02:00): > > > I don't think this is spam. It's a way for developers to get an extra > > stream of income to work on the things they love. > > I would not put it into the POM, those are ethernal and immutable and we try > to mini ihr them. > > Maybe a separate sponsors.xml as a extra artifact is better - or we get an > Organisation which already runs a Sponsoring program like GitHub to define an > official mapping from coordinatea to projects. Or maybe Sonatype since they > would be able to correlate? > > If you want to keep it in the POM a rather neutral attribute like a > @sponsor-search=true flag besides the project url would allow the discovery > (on that page). Then we would have to define that only the latest Version of > each artifact is to be consulted. But not sure how possible a Schema change > is? > > Gruß > Bernd > — > https://bernd.eckenfels.net > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
