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.

GitHub’s reactions, however, are a little more direct. It has a thumbs down, the quizzical thinking face and the celebratory party popper in addition to thumbs up, a heart and a laughing face.

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.

GitHub will match up to $5,000 in contributions to developers who sign up for the beta-stage program in their first year, according to materials provided ahead of the event taking place early ...

GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open-source developers through recurring monthly payments.Developers will be able to opt into having a “Sponsor ...