GitHub Sponsors. Sponsors, which debuts in beta today, manifests on the frontend as a Sponsor button at the top of repositories containing a .github/FUNDING.yml file in the master branch.

The feature, called GitHub Sponsors, works exactly like Patreon. Developers can offer various funding tiers that come with different perks, and they’ll receive recurring payments from supporters ...

GitHub introduces “Sponsors” button, allowing users to donate money to open-source contributors by Tom Krazit on May 23, 2019 at 7:04 am May 23, 2019 at 7:38 am Share 45 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button Steve Ballmer spent years hating on open source software. Satya Nadella recognized that the service has become indispensable to programmers.

More specifically, GitHub says it will now handle what is called the FIDO Universal 2nd Factor, or U2F, specification. Google and Yubico, maker of the YubiKey, have shared the key's underlying ...