Do you maintain any open source libraries?

[charlieharper]

I'm not a huge open-sourcerer, but I do have 2 libraries on Pypi and NPM.

Curious to know if there's any other maintainers on here?

 

[s0lar]

Not libraries per se but yes I always try and contribute to upstream when I can as a thank you. As I know if they libraries or tooling didn’t exist I would have to roll my own.

When I have put my own projects out to the public under a copy left people don’t realise the time sink it can become.

 

[Gnome]

I've written some stuff but nothing that is widely used.
I've upstreamed in a lot of repos of some bigger projects.

I honestly don't know how these guys do it.
Even on a day where I finish early, I'm tired and would barely be able to get a few lines out.
But some of these project the guys are committing tons of code every day.

One example I recently upstreamed on was Marlin.
Just lots of lines of code every day.
My assumption is the guy actually does it as his day job.
There is no way someone can get that much code out and still maintain a day job (even a lax day job)

 

[BeerIsNotGood...]

I've written some stuff but nothing that is widely used.
I've upstreamed in a lot of repos of some bigger projects.

I honestly don't know how these guys do it.
Even on a day where I finish early, I'm tired and would barely be able to get a few lines out.
But some of these project the guys are committing tons of code every day.

One example I recently upstreamed on was Marlin.
Just lots of lines of code every day.
My assumption is the guy actually does it as his day job.
There is no way someone can get that much code out and still maintain a day job (even a lax day job)

Nah... they are really just good (second nature)

 

[cguy]

I've written some stuff but nothing that is widely used.
I've upstreamed in a lot of repos of some bigger projects.

I honestly don't know how these guys do it.
Even on a day where I finish early, I'm tired and would barely be able to get a few lines out.
But some of these project the guys are committing tons of code every day.

One example I recently upstreamed on was Marlin.
Just lots of lines of code every day.
My assumption is the guy actually does it as his day job.
There is no way someone can get that much code out and still maintain a day job (even a lax day job)

It looks like he hasn’t worked for a company in 4 years, so he has most likely figured out how to monetize this (perhaps a 3D printer company pays him a stipend or je contracts for them, or something).

My company has had some notable open source people work for us. The deal took the form of “you consult on our issues and customize the open source software for us, and if you think it’s worthwhile, push it public”.