[Distutils] Documenting project_urls to suggesting thanking or funding mechanisms

[Wayne Werner]

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:

> 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/a4e549338eb3e3c70b1dd5628b38dc
> bdbf63443a
>
> 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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