[halffaday]

Some of the larger ones are Armin Ronacher’s own projects…

[doctoboggan]

What do you mean "own projects"? At first I thought you were implying that he somehow had a say in how the donations were distributed. But it seems like he is just a unaffiliated recipient? Anyone who does python web work would probably list him as highly core to the ecosystem so that would make sense.

[lolinder]

He's not unaffiliated, he's a Director of Engineering at Sentry [0]. Whether that means he has a say in who got paid I don't know, but I can see how that would feel a bit off to OP.

Edit: I'm also not 100% sure which projects OP was referring to. I just looked through the Google sheet and can't find anything by him, but I could have missed something.

[0] https://lucumr.pocoo.org/about/

[doctoboggan]

I see I was wrong. That does present a possible conflict of interest.

[whit537]

Possible but not actual. Pallets is the project in question here, and Armin is only barely involved anymore, specifically he doesn't see any of the money they raise.

[ainogate]

So he should as the creator of flask, I'm sure it's not easy trying to maintain that.

[zeeg]

I believe these are actually donating to an organization which manages projects he created, not to him directly.

[whit537]

Yes I confirmed with him ahead of time that he doesn't see any money sent to the Pallets project.