If there was a KeepAlive system for paying maintainers then this sort of thing might be less likely to happen. Not sponsorship, not donations, not support subs

If there was a KeepAlive system for paying maintainers then this sort of thing might be less likely to happen. Not sponsorship, not donations, not support subscriptions - those concepts are not the same a simple payment for nothing more than Keeping a project funded and Alive. KeepAlive payments in which companies pay a minimum $100month fee to KeepAlive projects that they depend on. How many companies have a dependency on Kenneth's requests module? Alot. Hundreds if not thousands. And if there was a self interest obligation for companies to make monthly KeepAlive payments then those companies would not be now wondering what it means to have so many projects that depend on Requests now without the project author. UPDATE: having read https://journal.kennethreitz.org/entry/r-python https://journal.kennethreitz.org/entry/r-python maybe Kenneth would be exiting anyway. But who knows, maybe if companies actually paid to Keep their dependencies Alive then people like Kenneth might remain engaged.