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Some developers were lucky enough to be employed by a company that pays |
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them for working on Gentoo full-time. But most are left out and their |
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work on Gentoo is entirely volunteer. |
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I thought that it could be nice if users could easily discover how to |
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pay donations to Gentoo developers and package maintainers. |
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There are a few approaches: |
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1) Special commands (like `npm fund`), which are never run by users so |
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they are kinda useless. |
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2) Informing users about funding opportunities via post-install |
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messages. This is relatively efficient but obtrusive and can lead to |
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hate campaigns (what happened to the core-js developer). |
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3) Fundraising campaigns, which I know nothing about :) |
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What do you think? |
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