I like the general idea, the only thing we need to be prepared for when money is involved is that there might be some painful situations where we do get stuck in the middle. Lets for instance say a project gets forked and the people behind the fork asks us to point to their donation page instead. Would probably not be an issue if the project is forked as an actual new project, but if there are two groups contesting the name/id of the original project then things might get ugly. Or a variation of that is if contributors to the project disagree about where donations should go and we get competing requests for where that link should point or if there should be a link at all. Not saying we should not do it, we just need to be ready for it and at least know who owns handling such situations (I would assume the council?) Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno@xxxxxxxx> > To: "Richard Hughes" <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 10:38:24 AM > Subject: Re: Donations in GNOME Software > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 14:16:57 +0100, > Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >The options we have are basically: > > > > * Disable all support for paid applications and donations from the UI > >completely > > * Enable the "Donate" button that takes you to the upstream-defined > >donation link (e.g. GIMP -> https://www.gimp.org/donating/) > > * Hijack the donate button to take people to > >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Contribute or something more beautiful > > I don't like hijacking the donate button. > > As long as the donation button isn't used to nag people, but is just > there to let people easily support projects they like, that seems like > a good feature to me. > > We should probably have some disclaimer for all of the foreign software, > whether it is free of cost, accepts voluntary donations or costs money, > that it is from outside Fedora and hence is not supported, nor does > Fedora get a cut of any payments. > _______________________________________________ > council-discuss mailing list > council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and > open source software and content as a collaborative community. _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
