Public Sponsor vs GitHub Sponsor

[pingshunhuangalex]

It's worth noting that previous sponsorship before 2022-06-09 won't be picked up by the new badges.

I've sponsored before and got the old GitHub Sponsor, but it was sneakily taken off after a while. Previously I thought this old badge might have an expiry date. Now come to think of it, it might be the GitHub team prepping for the new badges releases.

Sponsor a different project after 2022-06-09 helped me regain the new Public Sponsor badge with a slightly new design. I will observe this time more closely to see if it has an expiry date (I did a one-off sponsorship, not a monthly one)

[lnugraha]

I am not sure if my response answers correctly, but somehow user can lose their sponsorship badge (in the following month) if they stop sponsoring. CMIW.

[5HT2]

Tangentially, "Pull Shark" counts old pull requests, but "YOLO" does not count old pull requests, and is only given if the requirements are met since it was added.

[Schweinepriester]

While I feel like the tendency is correct

"YOLO" does not count old pull requests, and is only given if the requirements are met since it was added.

isn't true as is.

E.g. @Erol444 was awarded it dating prior to being (publicly) added on 2022-06-09:

Unlocked 2 Mar

See https://github.com/Erol444?achievement=yolo&tab=achievements.

Curiously I just noted the merge was actually earlier even

Erol444 merged commit fa9ba62 into master on 17 Feb

I wonder what's the oldest qualifying PR is we can find? 🤔

Random totally unfounded theories:

• they added the code to check for it on 2022-03-02
• they only looked back a certain period of time - a month? 2022?

[pingshunhuangalex]

Confirmed that the sponsorship will badge will go away in a month if you stopped sponsoring.

[Schweinepriester]

thank you! :)

[pingshunhuangalex]

Update: Sponsor badge now becomes a permanent badge which won't get expired after 30 days (without a renewed subscription).

Checking the milestone, it'll only pick the very first sponsor made (including the time using the old version)

[Schweinepriester]

oh wow!

can you elaborate on

including the time using the old version

the old version? you mean the previous badge?

[pingshunhuangalex]

Yes