org.projectfile.acknowledgements

The README’s post-licence credits, in four lists: contributors (the people who built the project), thanks (people or organisations owed a mention), sponsors (who funds the work), and credits (the projects and technologies this one builds on). Each entry is a name plus an optional url and detail; a bare string names a party with neither. An empty list drops its subheading and an absent namespace drops the whole section — acknowledgement is opt-in, never boilerplate.

Namespace: org.projectfile.acknowledgements
Owner: projectfile.org (community-maintained)
Status: proposed

Shape

Illustrative fragment — not a complete projectfile document. Consumers MUST round-trip unknown namespaces even when no shape is published.

---# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Damián Búho <damian.buho@proton.me>## SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
# Shape: org.projectfile.acknowledgements extension namespace# Illustrative fragment — not a complete projectfile document.# See registry.yaml for ownership and status.## Four lists, each optional and each dropped when empty; an absent namespace# drops the whole acknowledgements section. Financial support channels (where# to donate) belong in org.projectfile.funding / FUNDING.yml — this namespace# is who to CREDIT, not how to pay.
org:  projectfile:    acknowledgements:      contributors:  # the people who built the project        - name: Jane Doe          url: https://example.com/jane          detail: the original build system        - Sam Smith  # a bare string: a name with no link or detail      thanks:  # people or organisations owed a mention        - name: The Ubuntu community          url: https://discourse.ubuntu.com      sponsors:  # who funds the work        - name: Acme Corp          url: https://acme.example          detail: server time and CI runners      credits:  # the projects and technologies this one builds on        - name: BuildKit          url: https://github.com/moby/buildkit

[org.projectfile.acknowledgements]contributors = [ { name = "Jane Doe", url = "https://example.com/jane", detail = "the original build system" }, "Sam Smith" ]
[[org.projectfile.acknowledgements.thanks]]name = "The Ubuntu community"url = "https://discourse.ubuntu.com"
[[org.projectfile.acknowledgements.sponsors]]name = "Acme Corp"url = "https://acme.example"detail = "server time and CI runners"
[[org.projectfile.acknowledgements.credits]]name = "BuildKit"url = "https://github.com/moby/buildkit"

{  "org": {    "projectfile": {      "acknowledgements": {        "contributors": [          {            "name": "Jane Doe",            "url": "https://example.com/jane",            "detail": "the original build system"          },          "Sam Smith"        ],        "thanks": [          {            "name": "The Ubuntu community",            "url": "https://discourse.ubuntu.com"          }        ],        "sponsors": [          {            "name": "Acme Corp",            "url": "https://acme.example",            "detail": "server time and CI runners"          }        ],        "credits": [          {            "name": "BuildKit",            "url": "https://github.com/moby/buildkit"          }        ]      }    }  }}

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