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February 5, 2022 04:34 pm

GitHub Launches New Sponsors-Only Repositories

"A few years ago, GitHub introduced sponsorships that allowed anybody to make direct financial contributions to open source developers," TechCrunch reported this week, adding that Microsoft-owned GitHub is now "taking this concept a bit further by launching sponsor-only repositories, that is, private repositories that only sponsors will get access to."GitHub says the idea here is to give funders early access to projects as they are being built, for example, or access to what the company calls "sponsorware," that is access to projects just for sponsors. The company notes that developers can also use these repositories to host discussions with sponsors. And to give developers some flexibility here, they can attach specific repositories to different sponsorship tiers...The company is also adding a new call to action to sponsor-enabled repositories to give more visibility to the program. "In effect, the new feature formalizes something that many developers were already enabling themselves manually," reports VentureBeat, "but GitHub now takes care of all the heavy lifting such as sending invites..."The launch comes at a time when industry and government are looking for new ways to support and secure the software supply chain. The recently discovered Log4j vulnerability resurfaced age-old questions around the security of open source software, particularly software that isn't backed by full-time developer teams. For example, one of Log4j's core maintainers has a full-time job elsewhere as a software architect, and only works on "Log4j and other open source projects" in his spare time. With Sponsors-only repositories, developers will not only be able to solicit donations, but also better engage with backers — corporate or otherwise — at a deeper and more personalized level... Elsewhere, GitHub also now allows developers to attach metadata to their sponsor page URLs, which may help them track how new sponsors arrived on the scene — for example, they can see whether a tweet they sent out resulted in any direct sponsor signups.

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