MaintainerPulse

temporal prediction of dependency maintenance risk

pytest-runner pytest-dev/pytest-runner ▲ high risk

72%
no release in the next 12 months
57%
new issues will go unanswered (30 days)
100%
maintainer activity collapse within 12 months
13%
chance of a release within 12 months (survival model)

Model risk over time

calibrated P(no release next 12mo) at each historical monthly snapshot
0%50%100%2018-012020-072022-122025-06high risk

Repository activity, last 36 months

pushes issues PyPI release
00.512023-122025-07

What drives this score

TreeSHAP contributions; raises risk / lowers risk
days since last release+package age (months)-releases, last 12mo+releases, all time-

Survival curve

P(still no release) m months ahead, discrete-time hazard model
0%50%100%036912

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

Maintained alternatives

similar packages with low predicted risk; ranked by summary similarity blended with shared-dependents overlap, validated against known migrations
packagewhat it issimilarity shared dependentsits 12mo risk
pytest-rerunfailures pytest plugin to re-run tests to eliminate flaky failures 0.65 4 10%
pytest pytest: simple powerful testing with Python 0.65 15 2%
pytest-run-parallel A simple pytest plugin to run tests concurrently 0.64 0 5%
pytest-mock Thin-wrapper around the mock package for easier use with pytest 0.63 0 29%
pytest-github-actions-annotate-failures pytest plugin to annotate failed tests with a workflow command for GitHub Actions 0.56 0 19%

Signals at the latest snapshot

days since last release 1002 releases, last 12mo 0
people pushing, last 12mo 0 bus factor (top pusher share) -
issues opened, last 12mo 0 30-day response rate no issues
stars accumulated 53 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).