Do you contribute to open source in your free time? And if so, how much time do you put into it?

Free... Time...?

About 5 to 7 hours per week. Mostly on the weekends.

Sounds Like DigitalOcean survey question 😆

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I have several github repos, still two on sourceforge and two on Gentoo.

I am the lead maintainer of elogind, proxy maintain Ogre3D and BOINC for Gentoo Linux and wrote most patches adding elogind support to projects supporting systemd-login.

Further I contributed to many projects.

So the answer is "yes".

However, I have only about 1 hour per day to spend while I am sitting on public transport on my way to work. 😔

Oh! And I have rewritten the game loop, menu system and AI for Atomic Tanks and added a physics system throwing debris around on explosions. 😁

@Yamakuzure lol I read your comment in the voice of Gilfoyle because holy crap you look like him

@HampusMa My Avatar is as close to my actual appearance as possible. 😊

@AnonymousMooCow I showed up to write the exact same comment but you beat me to it. I bow to you in your triumph.

@duckWit lol, I think a lot of us are probably lacking time

@Yamakuzure sooo... you are Martin Starr?

@HampusMa nah, I wasn't in Spiderman. 😭

I'm developing my own open source project, does that count? If so, I spend almost every hour of free time I have on it 😅

Depends on how pissed off I am at work. Or how drunk I am

@RustyCookie Full time? Amazing! I wish I had that chance...

time investment varies, but I proudly do :)

I develop most of my projects open source, i haven't put anything online yet because afraid of writing bad code and judgement 😥

@linuxxx So they are closed source in practice? 😉

Don't worry too much. If someone sees your "bad code" and suggests improvement, you win. If they even prepare a PR for you, you win even more.
The rest, only criticizing but not contributing, you can mostly ignore anyway.

@RustyCookie Gaining experience and thus being able to publish even better code at a later point (at least this is the case for me)

@RustyCookie my point exactly.

Well, if I understood @linuxxx correctly, their project just "isn't there", yet, right?

However, I once read this advice about how to do it in FOSS:
"Release soon, release often."

Take these words as you like. For me they meant to get the chance for "voluntary reviews" as soon as possible. And that's a good thing.

@Yamakuzure For me it's like; it has to be functional at least. Yes, none of those projects are actually functional yet.

Define functional: they can do what they're supposed to do.

My latest project for example, the main "engine" is nearly ready so I could release that but without about 5-10 independent libraries (which haven't been written yet), it's useless.

I love to release stuff but it has to work imo.

@linuxxx yes, something working, at least some sort of demo, would be a good thing to have. 🤔