Add a payment link to plugin manifest to help fund plugins

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A discussion was initiated by hellekin about adding a payment link to plugin manifests to help fund plugins. The proposal involves adding a simple “donate” comment line with a link in the plugin’s code. JammyDodger pointed out that this is a separate proposal from the original topic about enabling signatures on meta for fundraising links. Heliosurge noted that the idea is related, as it allows developers to add a direct donate link to their plugins. The discussion suggests that adding a “donate” option in plugin/theme/theme-component topic templates is also feasible. It was also suggested that most payment options allow attaching a note, which could be used to specify what the donation is for.

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Continuing the discussion from Enable Signatures plugin on Meta for fundraising links:

I’m sorry to add to the discussion that you just closed, but one simple option has not been proposed, and I’d like to chime in to add a payment link to the plugin manifest, e.g.:

In plugin.rb:

# frozen_string_literal: true

# name: discourse-example-plugin
# about: A sample plugin to illustrate the simple payment option
# meta_topic_id: 1234567
# version: 1.0.0
# authors: Jane Doe
# url: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-example-plugin
# donate: taler://pay-pull/exchange.demo.taler.net/Z2KC4WB4KYKMYPFY3Q87FQ7MZPPMNV4TXGPQ0DCBT4NXGRY3GEB0

The payment link could be anything that a web browser can understand (e.g., a Stripe link, etc.)

(feel free to move to the original topic.)

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I’m not sure this is connected to enabling Signatures on meta?

(As this seems to be a separate proposal, I’ll leave it in its own topic)

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Yes in away. As the topic closed proposed adding signatures so that DeVs if they would like can have a donate link of sorts.

Now the Op in this case I believe is proposing DeVs add a bit of code to have a direct donate link in the plugin itself maybe to provide a donate link as part of the plugin.

Which would be cool as well.

Now maybe not signatures(as in your case yes can create too much noise unless it is restricted to the appropriate related categories ).
But maybe have it so DeVs can add an optional Donate Link to the Op of Customization > Plugin Customization > Theme & Customization > Theme component

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Indeed, “donate” sounds better than “payment”. Adding a simple ‘donate’ comment line with a link is easy to do.

Also, adding a donate option in the plugin/theme/theme-component topic templates is easy to do.

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The cool thanks ng I believe most pay options will allow attaching a note. So can say Donate towards X(plugin/theme/component/Core)