Like in rails github the most commented issue is thankyou
Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
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Re: Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
#62Irv Grousbeck, one of the legendary professors of entrepreneurship at Stanford GSB, says it over and over: thanks and praise cost you nothing but mean the world to colleagues. And whenever possible, praise in public and critique in private.
"Praise in public, critic in private"
I love it.
Re: Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
#63I maintain a moderately successful JavaScript library and there are a few things that absolutely make my day: people sending me an email telling me how they're using it (I see dependent projects on NPM but I love hearing about cool things!), people saying thanks, and people sending me any donation. I've had a handful of people send me a few bucks over the years and I was absolutely floored each time. In total I might…
Wouldn't it be great if GitHub and GitLab, etc. had donations baked in?
Say you add a few bucks to your account and you can dole it out as you go. Receivers can keep it or pledge all or some % to some short list of non-profits.
Something KISS can't be that difficult to do.
Re: Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
#64I maintain a moderately successful JavaScript library and there are a few things that absolutely make my day: people sending me an email telling me how they're using it (I see dependent projects on NPM but I love hearing about cool things!), people saying thanks, and people sending me any donation. I've had a handful of people send me a few bucks over the years and I was absolutely floored each time. In total I might…
Wouldn't it be great if GitHub and GitLab, etc. had donations baked in? Say you add a few bucks to your account and you can dole it out as you go. Receivers can keep it or pledge all or some % to some short list of non-profits. Something KISS can't be that difficult to do.
I don't remember how I stumbled onto it but I ended up using Pledgie who then uses PayPal under the hood... it sucks. Pledgie takes some reasonable cut but then PayPal considers it a business transaction and takes like a flat $0.30. Remember when I said a few low dollar amount donations? I end up losing 20-30% due to PayPay/Pledgie overhead.
I then tried adding a Bitcoin donation link in markdown in my README (before the transaction fees got silly) but the GitHub and NPM don't know what to do with it.
Re: Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
#65And sometimes a maintainer really needs to get paid. I think it would be wonderful if we could come up with better and more popular ways of "paying what you want / can". Or, even "paying if you are using this commercially". Or in other words: saying "thank you" in a language called cash.
This. Every year, I donate to Karabiner-Elements. It's the best open source keyboard remapping software for Mac, and its primary developer Takayama Fumihiko has tirelessly maintained it for many years before open sourcing it.
Re: Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't it be great if GitHub and GitLab, etc. had donations baked in? Say you add a few bucks to your account and you can dole it out as you go. Receivers can keep it or pledge all or some % to some short list of non-profits. Something KISS can't be that difficult to do.
I don't remember how I stumbled onto it but I ended up using Pledgie who then uses PayPal under the hood... it sucks. Pledgie takes some reasonable cut but then PayPal considers it a business transaction and takes like a flat $0.30. Remember when I said a few low dollar amount donations? I end up losing 20-30% due to PayPay/Pledgie overhead. I then tried adding a Bitcoin donation link in markdown in my README (before…
Yeah. Too many steps and too much financial overhead. On the other hand, if you could "deposit" say $25 to your account then the transaction fees only occur once.
Moi? I'd be willing to pay that (as opposed to sticking GH or GL with it). A dollar here. Two bucks there. Couldn't hurt.
Plus, the number of donations could be a public signal. Stars? They're like Likes (easy and free). Helpful but not as good as how many put their money where there mouse is.
Re: Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
#67Did you know Debian's reportbug has a feature in it that lets you send kudos instead of reporting an issue? `reportbug -k` or `reportbug --kudos`!
There should be a symlink for this to `send-kudos`. That way it's not like clicking Start to shut down - the way things are now, sending kudos is currently hidden in the "this is broken" reporter.