Projects vs. individuals

[Mike McQuaid]

Hey! Firstly, this is a great idea, thanks for doing it!

I was looking at index.js and it all seems to be individuals listed there. Is this intentional or just a coincidence?

I'm wondering if it's worth adding projects here that have a shared Patreon for the project itself.

Thanks again!

[Feross Aboukhadijeh]

Hey @MikeMcQuaid! There's a section at the bottom of the file for donate links that belong to projects! See here:

thanks/index.js

Lines 34 to 58 in 968abb1

 const packages = { 
   'babel-core': 'https://opencollective.com/babel', 
   bower: 'https://opencollective.com/bower', 
   chai: 'https://opencollective.com/chaijs', 
   cheerio: 'https://opencollective.com/cheerio', 
   choo: 'https://opencollective.com/choo', 
   gulp: 'https://opencollective.com/gulpjs', 
   'gulp-cli': 'https://opencollective.com/gulpjs', 
   hoodie: 'https://opencollective.com/hoodie', 
   koa: 'https://opencollective.com/koajs', 
   'material-ui': 'https://opencollective.com/material-ui', 
   mocha: 'https://opencollective.com/mochajs', 
   parcel: 'https://opencollective.com/parcel', 
   phenomic: 'https://opencollective.com/phenomic', 
   preact: 'https://opencollective.com/preact', 
   pug: 'https://opencollective.com/pug', 
   'react-native-elements': 'https://opencollective.com/react-native-elements', 
   'redux-devtools-extension': 'https://opencollective.com/redux-devtools-extension', 
   rollup: 'https://opencollective.com/rollup', 
   'socket.io': 'https://opencollective.com/socketio', 
   'styled-components': 'https://opencollective.com/styled-components', 
   tachyons: 'https://opencollective.com/tachyons', 
   webpack: 'https://opencollective.com/webpack', 
   yo: 'https://opencollective.com/yeoman' 
 } 

[Mike McQuaid]

@feross Gotcha, sorry for the confusion. Final question: are you planning on keeping this as an npm-only thing or extending it to other things (e.g. I'm thinking Homebrew). Thanks again!

[Feross Aboukhadijeh]

@MikeMcQuaid Going to keep this npm-only for now, I think. I don't know too much about other ecosystems and there have already been a few good projects started for other ecosystems:

• Python https://twitter.com/phildini/status/962412326266785792
• Ruby https://twitter.com/DPritchett/status/962495535847526401
• Go https://github.com/Southclaws/thanks

This seems like the way forward.

I'm not completely against evolving this thanks tool into something for all ecosystems. I would just need a lot of help to make that happen, and there would need to be a good argument made for why that's better than a tool-per-ecosystem. Thoughts?

[Mike McQuaid]

I would just need a lot of help to make that happen, and there would need to be a good argument made for why that's better than a tool-per-ecosystem.

I can't speak to the "needing a lot of help" but from my perspective: this ends up helping the language ecosystem but not system libraries/tools/package managers that the language ecosystem relies on to function. That's not to say you should or shouldn't do anything with this project (it's yours, after all) but just the reason why I'm interest in that.