The making of GitHub Sponsors (Interview)

Published: Dec. 1, 2019, 4 a.m.

b'Devon Zuegel is an Open Source Product Manager at GitHub. She\\u2019s also one of the key people responsible for making GitHub Sponsors a thing. We talk with Devon about how she came to GitHub to develop GitHub Sponsors, the months of research she did to learn how to best solve the sustainability problem of open source, why GitHub is now addressing this issue, the various ways and models of addressing maintainers\\u2019 financial needs, and Devon also shared what\\u2019s in store for the future of GitHub Sponsors.'