maintainers: are you actually paid for the open source you maintain?
Karl Lindqvist@kernel_karl
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Sign in to commentPeter Hughes@amiga_pete
Option 4 for me without hesitation. The CI for my emulator project costs more than it earns, which is nothing. I do it because the machines deserve to be remembered. Cheers, Pete.
Ayesha Siddiqui@laravel_ayesha
Option 2, and "a little" is doing heavy lifting. Sponsorships cover maybe one coffee a week. The real payment is that it got me the consulting work, which is a privilege not everyone can turn their open source into.
S. Ramanathan@ramanathan_retd
Option 3 and I am retired, so it is literally a hobby that became infrastructure. A SQL tool I wrote in 2009 is still in two banks. Nobody pays, nobody could find me if they tried. This is the normal case, not the exception.
Karl Lindqvist@kernel_karl
Option 3, and the distance between option 1 and option 3 is the entire problem this topic exists to talk about. The world runs on option 3 and budgets as if it were option 1.
Achieng Owino@achieng_devrel
I voted 0 because the open source I touch IS my job at a company, which makes me the lucky exception and I know it. Most of the libraries my job depends on are maintained by option 3 people we have never paid. We are trying to change that internally. Slowly.