A big +1 from my side: While there are many projects out there that have no issues with funding and have a big community, there are some where only a handful (or less) are doing all the work. I would love to see something like a little funding report at the end of the build.
Mainly my work is consumed by users totally new to open-source. I think most of them belong to the third and fourth type „never thought“ and "didn’t know how“. So, this would be great help for me. But taking my releases of PLC4X as an example … depending on which PLC4X release you would refer to, you’d get 6 different places to go to … so this might frustrate people (If they keep on using ancient versions) Chris Von: Andy Law <andy....@roslin.ed.ac.uk> Datum: Donnerstag, 28. August 2025 um 08:43 An: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org> Betreff: Re: support and funding metdata in poms and plugin ...And the third type - those who never thought about it. ...And the ones who did, but didn’t know where to start to ask (But apart from that, what have the Romans ever done for us…) And if you don’t want to see it, then set the environment variable or property to turn it off and carry on. This doesn’t sound like a Wikipedia “Before we show you the thing that you were looking for” style interaction. Have you seen the npm implementation? Later, Andy From: Delany <delany.middle...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 06:44 To: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org> Subject: Re: support and funding metdata in poms and plugin There are two types of people: those who are looking for a program to sponsor and those who are not. If I was the former, the last place on the planet I'd look for a worthy recipient is at the bottom of my latest build output. This isn't Wikipedia with its philanthropic, save-the-world-through-education vibe - these are esoteric software development side-projects. I don't want promotional content showing up in my sacred build output. Its just not the place for pathos. My 2 cents On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 03:37, 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/<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 > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.
