>From a user's point of view, this is gross. Gary
On Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 21:37 Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 <e...@zusammenkunft.net> > 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: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
