"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

Posted Aug 1, 2022 15:19 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: "Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers by atnot
Parent article: "Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

> They are not nearly as prevalent or necessary in the rest of the world. I have personally never owned or had the desire to own one, does this really disqualify me from having a popular PyPI library now?

No, most places which require it accept a debit card just fine.

"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

Posted Aug 1, 2022 16:09 UTC (Mon) by atnot (subscriber, #124910) [Link]

To clarify, by "Credit Card" I mean what vendors usually mean, which is a card number, expiration date and three digit CVC that is valid with Visa, Mastercard or American Express. These technically come in debit and credit card varieties, but I own neither of those things. I do have an account number with a local mutual bank, but the only thing you can do with that is perform a wire transfer. It's (and trust me from experience there) not something some random website online is going to understand and it's certainly not going to be able to perform any checks on it, whatever they are.

"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

Posted Aug 3, 2022 13:17 UTC (Wed) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

Google didn't accept my debt card. It wanted specifically a credit card.