News and Updates

Published under: Financials 3 min read

Retiring the contributor pool

After five years and more than $51,000 paid to contributors, we're retiring the contributor pool as AI-generated pull requests make it harder to keep the program focused on human contributions.

Nicholas C. Zakas

13 Nov, 2026

Published under: Financials 6 min read

Paying contributors, sponsoring projects, and more: ESLint's 2022 spending plan

When ESLint first started accepting donations, we weren't quite sure how to fairly distribute the proceeds. Now, three years into accepting donations, we've settled on a plan for how to use our funds for the betterment of the ESLint project and ecosystem.

Nicholas C. Zakas

23 Feb, 2022

Published under: Financials 4 min read

A year of paying contributors: Review

As part of the goals of the ESLint Collective, we have been paying contributors over the past year. We share the different approaches we tried and their results. We value the time of our contributors and we are continuously finding better ways to reward their work.

Nicholas C. Zakas

07 Oct, 2020

Published under: Financials 2 min read

Supporting ESLint's dependencies

As part of our goal for open source sustainability, we are happy to announce that we're starting to support ESLint's dependencies. We're grateful to the projects upon which ESLint is built and we want to share our success with them. Thanks to our sponsors, we're able to help them, and we hope to extend this to more dependencies.

Nicholas C. Zakas

16 Sep, 2020

Published under: Financials 3 min read

Funding ESLint's Future: November Update

We are happy to announce that we are currently sponsored at just under $10,000 per month. We share how we've used the money and what our sponsors are telling us. Thanks to the ESLint Collective, we are looking forward to a brighter future for ESLint.

Kai Cataldo

07 Nov, 2019