If I decided to sponsor my project's dependencies with say 100 USD and none of the developers are registered with thanks.dev – which seems like a reasonable assumption, especially as thanks.dev appears to be a young project – I wonder what happens with the money.
The money can't be allocated.
Does thanks.dev just keep it? Is it "stored" until it can be allocated?
And if this is the case: From the information on allocation it seems that all of the money will be distributed between all eligible developers (possibly 3 months after devs don't claim their balance)?
If so, what if there is only one (transitive) dependency that is registered with thanks.dev?
One thing that I haven't seen addressed here or in the FAQ is:
What happens to donations towards dependencies where the maintainer / organization / group of maintainers is not registered at thanks.dev?
The FAQ has a section titled "What happens if I don’t claim my balance?", but I think this only applies to people registered at thanks.dev.
I'm not even sure that thanks.dev would be able to reliably contact developers that / maintainers in all (most ?) situations.
The team is working very hard to make this happen. Still, they are all volunteers.