Provide guidelines on best practices for crediting agency for contrib support

[stpaultim]

Myself and my colleague of now the co-maintainers of a module and a theme. I'm the owner of Triplo and by definition any work I put into that module is supported by my business. I would like to indicate that Triplo stands behind my work in the Backdrop community.

Are there any guidelines on when and how to list this kind of agency support for the maintenance of a contrib project.

I notice that many of the most active contrib maintainers are not listing any business or agency support for their projects.

It's not important for me that my business is listed, but feels like it might be a nice thing. I also suspect that indicating business support for contrib is a good thing for Backdrop. When projects are being maintained by people that are making at least a part of their income from Backdrop CMS, that shows business/agency support for the project and is an indicator of a healthy community (I think).

Thoughts?

FYI - I surveyed about 20 random modules and only found one that listed any agency support in the credits.

[serundeputy]

I think this is a good idea.

For the immediate future I think you should list Triplo as a supporter of the modules that you and your colleague maintain in the README.md of those projects.

Long term it would be good to write, figure out where to post (backdropcms.org, backdrop-ops/contrib), and post the guidelines.

[jenlampton]

I would like to indicate that Triplo stands behind my work in the Backdrop community.

This should be included on the Credits section of the README.md file (I've been adding it there for companies that directly funded creation or ports of modules).

Is there an example of that in the sample readme file? If not, we should add it there so other people know that it's okay to do.

[jenlampton]

I've updated the example README.md file to include a line that credits an agency.

@stpaultim where else would you (did you) look for an answer to this question?