So it looks like the idea is it goes through your GitHub dependencies, and splits your donation up among them.
That’s a pretty neat idea.
I wonder if it would be possible or even desirable to try and get some automatic measure of “how much” you depend on a given project, to weigh the split. Probably that would be really difficult to capture. Anyway the current idea is already pretty cool.
Not automatic, but it already supports a measure of "how much" you depend on a project: boosting. You can boost dependencies up or down by up to a factor of 20 (e^3).
Regarding the post generally, using the problem of “how should I re-distribute my donations” to help solve the problem of “am I actually willing to be part of your software supply chain or am I just a hobbyist project, good luck using my code” seems like a nice way of hitting two birds with one stone.
That’s a pretty neat idea.
I wonder if it would be possible or even desirable to try and get some automatic measure of “how much” you depend on a given project, to weigh the split. Probably that would be really difficult to capture. Anyway the current idea is already pretty cool.