On 2019-11-5 02:23 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > On Nov 4, 2019, at 00:40, Joshua Root wrote: > >> How would everyone feel about adding FUNDING.yml files to our repos? >> >> <https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository> >> >> Full disclosure: I've been accepted into the GitHub Sponsors beta. I'd >> be happy to recommend any other regular contributors who would like to >> participate. > > I'm not familiar with FUNDING.yml files or GitHub Sponsors beta.
Please read <https://help.github.com/en/github/supporting-the-open-source-community-with-github-sponsors/about-github-sponsors> as well as the link I gave previously. > Are you suggesting that individual MacPorts developers would start soliciting > donations for the work that they personally contribute to the project? Or > that the MacPorts project as an organization would do so? I believe that GitHub Sponsors only supports sponsoring individuals at present. The button could also display a custom link as done by e.g. <https://github.com/python/cpython>, but I know there are reasons why we don't have a way to donate to the project as a whole. > If the former, how does that work? GitHub users can choose to sponsor anyone with a GitHub Sponsors profile. I imagine our file would use the "github: [USERNAME, USERNAME, USERNAME, USERNAME]" syntax, resulting in a button with links to all the sponsor profiles. - Josh
