GitHub Maintainer Reality Check

GH Archive captures every public GitHub event since 2011. Most analyses are surface-level star charts. The real signal is in commit timing patterns — 9-5 weekday-only patterns suggest paid work; evenings and weekends suggest volunteer.

This project builds a maintainer reality index for the top 500 packages on npm and PyPI, showing active human maintainer count, bus factor (how many contributors cover 50% of commits), and salaried vs. volunteer breakdown.

Data sources: GH Archive on BigQuery (free up to 1TB/month), GitHub REST API (5000 req/hr with token).