ASF policy and displaying a GitHub sponsor button on repos

[Rodric Rabbah <ro...@gmail.com>]

As you may know, GitHub announced sponsorship integration recently and
repos can provide a sponsorship button [1]  to facilitate connecting
contributors/maintainers with donors.

The ASF does not fund software development so it can remain stay
independent. External initiatives are allowed if they clearly are external
per https://community.apache.org/committers/funding-disclaimer.html

I'm wondering if there have been any discussions about the GitHub
announcements as it related to the ASF policy and whether we can/should
include a button on our repos.

Incidentally, are there any contributors/maintainers that need sponsorship?
You can reach out to me out of band.

[1]
https://help.github.com/en/articles/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository

-r

Re: ASF policy and displaying a GitHub sponsor button on repos

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 6:34 PM Rodric Rabbah <ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...As you may know, GitHub announced sponsorship integration recently and
> repos can provide a sponsorship button [1]  to facilitate connecting
> contributors/maintainers with donors....

Assuming that can point to any URL I'd say making that point to
http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html would be great.

Or to an OpenWhisk specific page which might also present more
project-specific options if there are any, and also points to that ASF
page.

Is that what you had in mind?

-Bertrand