So, straight up, if it remains like this, do you think you'd be willing to take on "another app" to be more connected with the team, or would you likely avoid it because of the inconvenience?
Element works fine for me on the desktop where I spend most of my time, and it's convenient enough for me to use it, so absolutely, I can adapt.
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?
I understand this is a problematic topic, and I did not intend to keep any messaging in anything that made it to the official repositories. If I do get accepted, I am removing the messages from my AUR packages. Martin On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde@archlinux.org> 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?
Regards,
-- Leonidas Spyropoulos PGP: 244740D17C7FD0EC