Rather than trying to donate to the most popular packages, people could try to donate to the packages they use, and then their dependencies (it would be nicer,

Rather than trying to donate to the most popular packages, people could try to donate to the packages they use, and then their dependencies (it would be nicer, though, if repos had a way for packages to list their dependencies and automatically propagate donations they received down—which would be a usable by the top level packages but, eh, you have to trust people at some point).