[swrobel]

Decided to finally get onboard with Github sponsors and was dismayed to see this message:

"You'll be @babel's 13th sponsor, helping them reach their goal of $12,000 per month."

If a project as widely-used as babel can only attract 13 sponsors, this model is definitely broken

[bigethan]

They get _many_ more sponsors through Open Collective https://opencollective.com/babel

[moritonal]

What's the goal of sponsorship? To pay what it's worth or support it's development? Anyone could live a good life off $144k, but is that what Babel deserves?

I'll be honest that when I see a repo making more than $100k I kinda feel they don't need sponsorship. Although how does health insurance and the like work for full-time open source devs?

[hobofan]

> I'll be honest that when I see a repo making more than $100k I kinda feel they don't need sponsorship.

There are many projects that could use more than 1/2 full-time maintainers.

[jjjeii3]

they make more like 100K per month...