[Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

[Daniel Holth]

Have you seen https://rubytogether.org ? It looks like exactly what you are
proposing, only with more blocks.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:25 PM Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:

> On 23Jul2016 1211, Donald Stufft wrote:
> >
> >> On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Nicholas Chammas
> >> <nicholas.chammas at gmail.com <mailto:nicholas.chammas at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> I know a more concrete proposal would have to address a lot of details
> >> (e.g. like how to split contributions across multiple maintainers),
> >> and perhaps there is no way to find the resources to build or maintain
> >> such a thing in the first place. But just for now I’d like to separate
> >> essence of idea from the practical concerns of implementing it.
> >
> >
> > I’m mulling over the idea in my head, but one other thing we’d need to
> > figure out is the *legality* of doing this and if it’s something the PSF
> > is willing to do at all.
>
> Maybe it's as simple as a user profile "Donations URL" field that is
> also listed on any packages owned by that user? Or possibly a
> per-package URL? (The latter may work out better for people who manage
> both personal and work packages, which is currently the system we're
> using at Microsoft until we get a centralised publishing system set up.)
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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