Research Artifact - GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source

This is a research artifact for the ICSE'22 paper "GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source". The following three research questions were constructed to guide the study.

• RQ1: Who participates in GitHub Sponsors?
  • RQ1.1: What are the characteristics of sponsored developers?
  • RQ1.2: What are the characteristics of sponsors?
• RQ2: What characteristics make developers more likely to receive sponsorship?
• RQ3: What are developers' perceived challenges and benefits related to sponsoring?
  • RQ3.1: Why are develpers looking for sponsors?
  • RQ3.2: What is the impact of (not) getting sponsorship?
  • RQ3.3: Why are developers sponsoring?

This artifact is a repository including lists of studied repositories on GitHub, a dataset for the network diagram for answering RQ1, the features for sponsored and non-sponsored developers for RQ2, the features for sponsors for RQ2, and survey material and coding of responses for RQ3.