I have provided an answer to this here, shortly after Tomaz's message - https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OJFWI4OBL2ICLOTB5H6TDQNREAWBVOAE/
Would you like me to elaborate on something specific, or does that suffice? Martin On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM Jelle van der Waa <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8/10/25 16:37, Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 at 07:02 Leonidas Spyropoulos > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <https:// > > rys.rs/contact>> | Toss a coin on > > https://rys.rs/donate <https://rys.rs/donate> > > > > sc-controller-git > > # Co-Maintainer: Martin Rys <https://rys.rs/contact <https:// > > rys.rs/contact>> | Toss a coin > > on https://rys.rs/donate <https://rys.rs/donate> > > > > jdownloader2 > > # Maintainer: Martin Rys <https://rys.rs/contact <https:// > > rys.rs/contact>> | Toss a coin on > > https://rys.rs/donate <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. > > It would be nice to get Martin's opinion on this matter instead of > through proxy.
