Protecting my time on OSS projects
I am not a prolific contributor on open-source work in any sense. It has also been a while since I received any issues or pull-requests on my work.
I recently noticed an issue filed by a user on the (unofficial) CircleCI Terraform provider.
The issue raised was something I was aware of but chose not to fix. I was not sure if the impacted feature would be well-used for the bug to be noticed.
That someone reported it helped signal to me this project and feature is depended upon by users. (Thank you @ nagendrasanthosh)
I took a Saturday morning to release the fix, and it was a fun occasion.
I'd like to keep at this policy.
I am not going to jump into fixing any projects if I think it may take more than 1 weekend to resolve. It may sound selfish, but while the project is Free, my time is not; Family will come first. 👪
What is your policy or strategy on protecting your time on OSS work?