In practice, it is not strange at all. The person you replied to tried to highlight why that particular framing a bad metric to highlight in an OSS project. P

In practice, it is not strange at all. The person you replied to tried to highlight why that particular framing a bad metric to highlight in an OSS project. People respond better to something like: this repo needs $500/mo to achieve X; $1000/mo to achieve Y and; $2000/mo to achieve Z. We have received $200 in funding for this month." rather than the example given above: "this repo receives $500 per month" The first framing emphasizes your needs, the second framing emphasizes your current situation. The first is better because it gives any potential donor actionable information to decide whether you need a donation or not, and more importantly, how much impact their donation will make if they choose to donate. A donor can make an out-sized impact on a project with a stretch goal of "$2000/mo to achieve Z" that has only received $200 in donor funds by providing the $1800 balance for instance.