[Distutils] Documenting project_urls to suggesting thanking or funding mechanisms

[Philip James]

That works for me. I'm happy to document both.

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:36 AM, Wayne Werner <waynejwerner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> FWIW, some people aren't in it for the money, but would enjoy gratitude
> <http://saythanks.io/>.
>
> I'd personally do `{'funding': 'https://fundme.example.com', 'thanks': '
> https://saythanks.io/to/waynew <https://saythanks.io/to/waynew'%7D>'}`
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> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Philip James <phildini at phildini.net>
> wrote:
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>> Hello distutils-sig! This email comes to you by way of an issue I filed (
>> https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1276), the tl:dr; of which is:
>>
>> I would like it to be easier for packages and package maintainers to
>> indicate how they want to be thanked or funded for their work. I created
>> https://pypi.org/project/thanks/ to help with this, but right now it's
>> reading from a JSON blob maintained by the library. I would prefer to read
>> from the packages themselves, and the `project_urls` dict seems like a good
>> place to do so.
>>
>> Here is an example from the thanks project:
>> https://github.com/phildini/thanks/commit/a4e549338eb3e3c70b
>> 1dd5628b38dcbdbf63443a
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>> What I am planning to do:
>> - Update the documentation and sample project with a `Project-URL:
>> Funding` item, to encourage maintainers to add this information.
>>
>> What I would love to know from this list:
>> - What do we think of the name "Funding"? Would you prefer "Thanks"?
>>
>> Cheers, and thank you for your time.
>>
>> Philip
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