Daily. It's my job.
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Lucky bastard!
(Thank you 😉 )
It's more common than you might think. A lot of companies have open source codebases. In fact, I think almost every software engineer job I've had so far have had at least a little public code.
That has been somewhat my experience too, but it's rare to find somebody working on such code every day. It's enviable to me.
NC is not for code. Its literally the cancer that prevents people from being able to have a job developing FOSS
I try to contribute as much info as I can to Open Street Map on my walks.
Is there an app that makes this easier to do? I want to contribute but I don't see a setting or option in osmand
StreetComplete is the one I use, although there's a handful. It's on both the play store and Fdroid
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104 contributions in last year on codeberg, 52 contributions on github (some are duplicated from codeberg due to mirroring), some more in other places.
code: null, nada, nothing. dunno how issues: maybe 30 in 9 years using gnu/linux money: 1% of my income for 5 years now, to whatever project i find cool, mostly smaller ones tho
I hope to one day, but I don't have any programming skills to speak of
There are many ways to contribute. I actually read an article about that a couple of days ago, maybe it will be of interest to you, too: https://github.com/readme/featured/open-source-non-code-contributions
That's a really great article, thank you for the link! That was informative and educational and I am a fan.
I can't code either but I'm supporting new users in selected forums on a daily basis and I volunteer at our local linux event once a year.
My main hobby is designing and programming embedded devices, and anything I create gets slapped up on my github in case anyone else can use it. Schematics, code, whatever.
I have a side hustle of selling the PCBs I make, but I have absolutely no problems with someone making a clone of my designs. It's not like they're super advanced tech. Anyone can figure out what I've figured out.
My job is contributing to the building of an open source project full of shared tools and resources for businesses in my industry to share. I am part of a team of skilled developers and citizen developers across my industry that work to create shared FOSS tools to make all of us more efficient at our work.
So about 60 hours per week.
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Since for the most part i still suck at programming; i help translating programs in my main language since i needed to learn english for my job regardless.
Its practically been all my free time in the past 14 years
☝️ the Man
As much as I can. I can't code at all and don't work in IT, but at least I try to help newcomers as much as I can, publish my work as OS license, try to heat up as much traffic as I can on Lemmy (especially for non-tech stuff) and report bugs whenever I find them.
I can't do much more :(
- I have commits accepted to major projects you have heard of. Mainly because I have no patience for a poorly worded README.
- I co-maintain a couple of mildly popular things you almost certainly haven't even heard of.
- I solely maintain a half dozen utilities that are only used by myself and some brave souls who randomly found them on GitHub.
TL;DR: I am an open source hipster, because "you probably haven't heard of" my work, but I think it's pretty keen.
Monthly donations and code once in a while when I run into a bug or require a feature and have time.
Whenever I can. Currently I‘m a bit short on change so I just contribute work. Did some translations, filed bugs, raised awareness and helped others use open source software. I also try to learn to code good enough to fix things in projects but I‘m not there yet.
Not often but I have a moment where I do. Last year I contributed a plugin for MusicBrainz Picard which allows you to submit your genre tags to MusicBrainz. I want to give it a proper good update in the future but I'm so focused on other things right now.
I used to contribute more when I was at a job where I was unsatisfied. Python was my first language that I really enjoyed writing, regardless of the occasional warts. There are other many other languages I enjoy. Instead, the job had me writing shitty Ant code when I could write code. So I would contribute to OSS projects in my spare time. Now that I'm at a job where my creative juices get flowing on a regular basis, I contribute less. Most of my contributions have been related to a work project that needs this or that fixed upstream. That would have been impossible previously, since we had a big steaming pile of shitty Ant code that had been written from scratch. No upstreaming fixes for that because it had very minimal dependencies.
Problem for me is I'll write code in computercraft or Garry's mod when I'm bored like that which isn't really of any help to anyone
Semi-regularly.
I fairly often send patches for small bug fixes and features. I also maintain a few packages in nixpkgs. I also forked an abandoned project to provide some fixes and updates, so I maintain that now.
I also try to give a donation to an open-source project that I use every couple of months.
I also have a bunch of my own projects that I released as open source, but I don't think that is really what the question is asking.
About 35.0% of my waking life is contributing to FOSS.
Mostly its filing bug reports. Sometimes I write my own code
I'd guess about monthly to bimonthly, in the sense of submitting a fix for an issue that affects/concerns me/my use of open source projects.
I've created one project that no one uses. I've found a lot of friction contributing to existing projects. There has to be:
- something to do
- the maintainer is cool with having it done
- the maintainer is okay not doing it themselves
- is within my expertise or requires an acceptable amount of ramp up learning
Then I have to make sure to learn their code of conduct and do it exactly the way they want. Do they want testing? Do they want me to update the docs? So I have to get green light from maintainer to start? Etc.
I am a dev but I always find it hard to get into the code of opensource projects so I am never able to contribute. I hope I can understand how to figure this one day.
At least weekly.
I've made a few code contributions, but most of the time I'm working on my own (also libre) projects or procrastinating.
I'm also a member of the FSF so I guess those membership dues also count?
I've done a few documentation contributions for some projects. Turns out that technical writers and editors are appreciated in certain places.
Its also horrible lacking in most projects (cough Lemmy)
Sadly, I've contributed docs to some projects only to have the devs delete it. They profited off of their hosting solution, so the wanted it to be unclear how to self host it
Almost daily to the Jellyfin Roku client.
Come join us if you want to work on some cool crap!
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Not good enough :(
I regularly do bug reports. I would contribute more, but I simply don't have the time.
This but I don't have time or knowledge.
Practically every day.
Don't do NixOS kids...
So far, once.
i made two issues and a small pull request once, haven't donated money to any foss yet but i should and i will when possible.
Like once or twice a year I will open pull requests to libraries I use that have problems or missing features.
Way too often. Maintainers wish I didn't...
Data for open street map, open voice, open assistant, some translation issues, bug reports, and small bug fixes
So I would say couple things a month
If using open source projects and sharing my experience by helping others on forums and logging detailed bugs when I find them counts as contribution, then everyday.
I'm a software dev myself, but I have enough on my plate with my day job and two kids that have to be taken to all manner of activities. I don't know how all these people find the time to work on free software, probably for little to no compensation, but my hat is off to all of you, wherever you are.
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