Hi Christian, First of all, thanks for all the effort you’re putting in Back In Time. You took the project from the ground resurrected it, and now improving it in a steady manner. That’s important for me, and many of us, I believe.
On the subject of donations, I would not object, and I believe it’s totally fair. Unfortunately, the original author of Back In Time is not very responsive, so you’re the lead developer now. The only thing I’d do is, make the README.md changes first, and change the about box a bit later. That’s only me, though, and I like rolling changes. Thanks again for all the effort, Cheers, Hakan > On 22 Jun 2026, at 19:05, [email protected] wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Bit-dev mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/bit-dev.python.org > Member address: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Bit-dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/bit-dev.python.org Member address: [email protected]
