Re: 3 years of coding Zsh

[Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>]

I just felt that doing 7-8.5 commits per day not excluding holidays
for 2 years and counting 3rd, and at this occasion verifying dark
(undebugged) areas of Zsh code, what results in precious bug-fixes
(like solid sched) is enough justification to ask.

On 17 June 2018 at 16:21, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote on Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:41 +0200:
>> I've updated PayPal button, it is in English and USD now. It's located
>> on the top of Fast-Syntax-Highlighting page:
>>
>> https://github.com/zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting
>>
>
> Sebastian, it is not acceptable to use this mailing list as an
> advertisement vehicle for one's personal bank account.  I will not
> dissect whether you have already crossed the line or are merely
> flirting with it; I will simply ask you not to solicit donations again
> on this list.
>
> I seem to remember you have an IRC channel for your plugins.  The
> /topic of that channel would be a fine place to solicit donations on.
> You must remember that this list is not your personal blog slash
> billboard; it is a symposium of the entire zsh community.
>
>>
>> The URL pointed by the button is:
>>
> [elided]
>>
>> Any donation will be used for Zsh development,currently to uplift
>> Fast-Syntax-Highlighting.
>
> [Disclosure: I am a co-maintainer of z-sy-h, of which fast-syntax-
> highlighting is a fork and competitor.  Having said that...]
>
> Let's be absolutely clear here: fast-syntax-highlighting is a third
> party project, of which Sebastian is AFAIK the sole maintainer.
> Fast-syntax-highlighting is not in any way, shape, or form part of
> zsh.  Fast-syntax-highlighting is not endorsed by zsh.  None of that is
> anticipated to change.
>
> As such, sir, your description of the donations as "will be used for zsh
> development" is, at best, misleading: those moneys would NOT be used
> for development of zsh itself.
>
> Daniel
>
>   P.S. To be clear, I don't mind one bit whether your personal projects
>        have donations buttons on them... so long as the use of the
>        donations is correctly described.
>
> P.P.S. If someone actually wants to donate "to zsh development", send
>        your money to whichever person, organization, or bitcoin address
>        pws endorses.