On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 at 07:02 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?
just answering here instead of martin because this has been discussed in the past and he agreed to drop all of the toss a coin messages.
Regards,
-- Leonidas Spyropoulos PGP: 244740D17C7FD0EC