How much time per month should an unpaid volunteer maintainer dedicate to an Open Source project?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

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[joergi@chaos.social]

@evan I miss the option: as much as he/she wants.
and only as much as it's healthy for him/her and their relationships!

[tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk]

@evan 'As long as they feel happy with' which could be any of the above.

[shtrom@piaille.fr]

@evan However much as they feel like and healthily can. Unpaid volunteers owe nothing to noone.

[preinheimer@phpc.social]

@evan I'm with @joergi

[dannycolin@floss.social]

@evan @joergi @preinheimer huge +1 on that. Maintainers of open source softwares don't owe anything to anyone.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

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[malwareminigun@infosec.exchange]

@evan A: What *they* want to.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

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[larsmb@mastodon.online]

@evan (x) however much they feel like it

[evan@cosocial.ca]

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[troglobit@fosstodon.org]

@joergi exactly this @evan why phrase the question in such a black and white perspective? I’ve been an open source and free software maintainer and contributor since the late 1990’s and I strongly oppose anyone telling what to do and not to do!

[evan@cosocial.ca]

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[tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk]

@evan They're unpaid volunteers, not employees.

Whether I'll continue to use unmaintained software depends on whether it still works for me (or whether I can fork it and fix issues, but that's not an option for many). Mostly I'll find an alternative, of which there are usually many.

[troglobit@fosstodon.org]

@evan @preinheimer @joergi depends quite a lot no the project. There are no fixed rules why do you want to impose them?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

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[malwareminigun@infosec.exchange]

@evan You didn't say "what are your conditions to use software", you said "how many unpaid volunteer hours should there be". There is software with those problems with thousands of hours of investment, there is also software without those issues with very little.

I don't "owe" the project usage, and the maintainers don't "owe" the project maintenance hours.

[larsmb@mastodon.online]

@evan That's ... a different question? They've got no obligations to me.

I could maintain it or contribute to it myself, pick something else, pay someone ...

But there's no "should".

[evan@cosocial.ca]

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