On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 at 07:02 Leonidas Spyropoulos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Martin, > > On 24/07/2025 18:26, Martin Rys wrote: > > I've been maintaining a random assortment of things in the AUR, a lot of > > the times simply because I was using a package that the previous > > maintainer disowned, and I figured I might pick up the torch. > > > > Which brings me to why I want to become a PM - I would like to see some > > of the things I currently maintain in the official repositories, such as > > sc-controller** or Tauon**, and to help out with the maintenance in > > general. > > while reviewing your application for Package Maintainer, I noticed that > several of your AUR PKGBUILDs contain a personal donation message in the > header, for example: > > sc-controller > # Maintainer: Martin Rys <https://rys.rs/contact> | Toss a coin on > https://rys.rs/donate > > sc-controller-git > # Co-Maintainer: Martin Rys <https://rys.rs/contact> | Toss a coin > on https://rys.rs/donate > > jdownloader2 > # Maintainer: Martin Rys <https://rys.rs/contact> | Toss a coin on > https://rys.rs/donate > > While I appreciate the voluntary nature of AUR contributions, this > solicitation blurs the line between open community contribution and > self-promotion. Arch’s volunteer-driven ethos emphasises goodwill and > collaboration, in my opinion - not personal fundraising syndication > within build scripts. > > Could you share your thoughts on this practice and whether you would be > willing to remove these lines not just from official PKGBUILDs but from > AUR PKGBUILDs also if you were to become a Package Maintainer? just answering here instead of martin because this has been discussed in the past and he agreed to drop all of the toss a coin messages. > > Regards, > > -- > Leonidas Spyropoulos > PGP: 244740D17C7FD0EC > > >
