This is a great question, and I really should've written more about it (maybe I'll add it in as an update).
In summary, I think this is a great reason to use OpenCollective, because it makes it easy to do these payouts. I think I'm fairly comfortable taking in small individual contributions that are freely given, but if someone's putting a big patch together, I think the expectation should be that some of the sponsorship money should go to them.
I think that's fair. I'm just feeling that there's a lot happening at the maintainers discretion -- but I guess A) you can't avoid that and B) ideally, most of the income is profits, so there are no expectations on how it should be managed (as opposed to with donations).
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This is a great question, and I really should've written more about it (maybe I'll add it in as an update).
In summary, I think this is a great reason to use OpenCollective, because it makes it easy to do these payouts. I think I'm fairly comfortable taking in small individual contributions that are freely given, but if someone's putting a big patch together, I think the expectation should be that some of the sponsorship money should go to them.
Does that make sense?
I think that's fair. I'm just feeling that there's a lot happening at the maintainers discretion -- but I guess A) you can't avoid that and B) ideally, most of the income is profits, so there are no expectations on how it should be managed (as opposed to with donations).