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by wildmanx 1550 days ago
> We've worked on something that we call package support which is adding extra metadata to > the package JSON, which allows the maintainer to provide information about their intention in terms of support. So what kind of support is there? Is it best effort? Is there no support at all? Is there a company? Is it part of a foundation?

The default answer is: No. There is no support. And that's written in the license already.

Announcing anything beyond that is called an ad. It may be a useful ad, but it's still an ad.

(Assuming it's paid support. If it's support "for free" then that's part of the problem if it's social-pressures somebody to do this in their free time. You are externalizing your business support costs. And you really want to build your business empire on a teenager's hobby project? So, whoever is interested in this "intention" metadata should only really care about paid support, and then that's an ad.)