[dtolnay]

https://thanks.dev has a good model for this. By default they'll split your monthly contribution equally among your dependencies (and exponentially decaying among transitive dependencies) but you can go in and "boost" or "unboost" specific dependencies or developers by up to a factor of 20 up or down. So if I have 2 dependencies which are equally important to my project but one is vastly higher effort to maintain, I can reflect that in the allocation.

[elkos]

What if one of yours dependencies hasn't setup an account in Thanks Dev?

[dtolnay]

See the explanation by the thanks.dev founder (qwerki) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33368045