MaintainerPulse
temporal prediction of dependency maintenance riskrequests psf/requests ● elevated
46%
no release in the next 12 months
15%
new issues will go unanswered (30 days)
68%
maintainer activity collapse within 12 months
89%
chance of a release within 12 months (survival model)
Model risk over time
calibrated P(no release next 12mo) at each historical monthly snapshot
Repository activity, last 36 months
pushes
issues
PyPI release
What drives this score
TreeSHAP contributions; raises risk /
lowers risk
Survival curve
P(still no release) m months ahead, discrete-time hazard model
What if? — poke the model
drag a signal and the deployed models rescore this package live (implied signals move together — two years without a release also zeroes "releases, last 12mo"). The needle tracks the activity-collapse model, a logistic regression: monotone by construction, so it responds smoothly to counterfactuals where the tree models step.
maintainer activity collapse, 12mo
In plain words
- bus factor: one person makes 96% of pushes
- only 17% of recent issues get a response in 30 days
- healthy cadence: 6 releases in the last year
Maintained alternatives
similar packages with low predicted risk; ranked by summary similarity
blended with shared-dependents overlap, validated against known migrations
| package | what it is | similarity | shared dependents | its 12mo risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| responses | A utility library for mocking out the `requests` Python library. | 0.70 | 25 | 23% |
| anthropic | The official Python library for the anthropic API | 0.67 | 11 | 0% |
| requests-cache | A persistent cache for python requests | 0.62 | 5 | 9% |
| web3 | web3: A Python library for interacting with Ethereum | 0.61 | 2 | 21% |
| niquests | Niquests is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. It is a drop-in replacement for Requests, | 0.60 | 0 | 1% |
Signals at the latest snapshot
| days since last release | 171 | releases, last 12mo | 6 |
| people pushing, last 12mo | 2 | bus factor (top pusher share) | 96% |
| issues opened, last 12mo | 23 | 30-day response rate | 17% |
| stars accumulated | 18446 | open vulns without fix | 0 |
Probabilities are isotonic-calibrated on a held-out validation year and evaluated on future snapshots the models never saw (PR-AUC 0.894, precision@50 = 1.00 on the headline target).