Hello everyone,

I would like to bring up a topic for discussion and collect some
feedback from the projects community before making any changes. Because
this mailing list has not so many members I consider to re-post this
message also at my own Mastodon account [1] pointing to the projects
account [2].

For other projects I maintain, I usually have a note in their README
about donations pointing to my personal accounts (currently Liberapay /
Ko-fi). I have avoided doing this in Back In Time so far, mainly
because I am not the original author. And I am unsure wether this would
be appropriate.

However, I am considering adding a small, non-intrusive donation section
to Back In Time as well. This would be placed in two locations:
- README.md (example [3] [4])
- the application Help menu

The note would point to the donation section of my Codeberg "about-me"
page at [5]. Details and the intended usage is also described there.

An important point, also described there, is that donations would
explicitly go to me as a person, not to the project itself. The project
obviously benefits indirectly, but I do not route donations into
separate project funds or structures. The reason is that the current
"amount of money" does not justify such structures.

There won't be banners, popups, “donate now” messages in the UI, or any
promotional content on the mailing list or mastodon. Only a simple
informational note in existing documentation/help.

Before doing anything, I would like to hear your opinions and any
concerns about this.

Best,
Christian Buhtz

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@buhtz
[2] https://fosstodon.org/@backintime
[3] https://codeberg.org/buhtz/hyperorg
[4] https://codeberg.org/buhtz/spdx2debian
[5] https://codeberg.org/buhtz/about-me#donations
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