proposal

Why

Site owners running Air-based sites want a simple way to accept donations, similar to the panel used on donate.codeberg.org. A full Stripe Checkout Sessions integration (server-side session creation, webhooks, environment-variable secrets) is unnecessary overhead: Stripe already hosts a permanent, dashboard-created "Payment Link" page per donation target. A lightweight static-link panel widget covers the need with zero server-side logic.

What Changes

• Add a new Raku module Air::Plugin::Donate: a does Tag widget (no routes, no registration in site :register[...]) that renders a Pico-styled <article> panel with a heading, blurb, and a "Donate" button linking to https://donate.stripe.com/<key>

• $.key constructor attribute holds the Stripe Payment Link's trailing id, mirroring the Air::Base::Tools Analytics/Umami $.key convention — no env vars, no secrets, no API calls, no webhooks

• Exported factory sub donate(*@a,*%h) for inline use, e.g. main [ donate(:key<abc123XYZ>) ]

• Full mi6-style project scaffold: META6.json, dist.ini, LICENSE (Artistic-2.0), Changes, README.md (including Stripe account / Payment Link setup instructions), test suite, GitHub Actions CI

Capabilities

New Capabilities

• donate-panel: Static Stripe donation panel widget for Air sites — renders a heading/blurb/button linking to a pre-created Stripe Payment Link, with no backend logic.

Impact

• New repo Air-Plugin-Donate/ (independent git repo, depends: ["Air"] only — no Cro::HTTP)

• No changes to Air core or sibling plugins

• No webhooks, no environment variables, no Stripe API calls of any kind