An independent academic preprint from fortiss and TU Munich benchmarked three open source funding mechanisms against a model of maintenance impact across 718,750 PyPI packages. The ecosyste.ms Python fund, which distributes money across dependency-graph-critical packages, showed the strongest alignment with high-impact packages despite covering only 97 packages — accounting for 25.9% of modelled improvement impact and 38.0% of regression impact. The author, who runs ecosyste.ms, reflects on a decade of dependency graph work starting with Libraries.io, describes the scale of the current platform (14M+ packages, 157M+ versions, ~2B dependency declarations), and discusses both the strengths and limitations of the study's maintenance signal. He also notes that roughly 12% of repositories behind critical packages are already gone, with another ~20% at risk.
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