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[Edit: Wrong, see replies] I love the idea, but the math doesn't seem to check out on the simulation: The sum of the donation greatly exceeds the donated sum, even on the example page.

Is it also possible to tweak / cap the weight of the donations? While I might have 20 dependencies for types à la '@types/node', I don't want DefinitelyTyped to account for 50% of my donation.

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Which example are you looking at? Perhaps you included the "Shared with" amounts to the total, which is actually what a project pays it's dependencies.

Currently there isn't a way to change the weights. For projects like DefinitelyTyped, react, etc, they will have the option to either not claim funds and their allocations will redistributed, or they can elect to have their allocations pass through straight to their dependencies instead.

Lastly there is always the option to create your own explicit set of dependencies you want to fund with a stackaid.json file in your repo

While taking a screenshot, I noticed my error: The donation input is monthly, but the donated amount is per year, so it should sum to 12x the monthly amount.

Thanks for the answer!

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