On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 08:56:23AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Volunteer contributors are negligible when it comes to larger changes at the codebase or regular contributions. Maintaining a kernel port or working on GCC is almost always a full time job.
Worth remembering that many volunteers' interest was sparked by their rights to accessible code and having their own itch to scratch, which has led many into aligned full time jobs. The first two-line commit might have taken moments to type, but was perhaps the outcome of weeks going down the rabbit-hole, trying to isolate an issue and fathom out how the blocks/sub-systems/projects interacted. Harnessing and directing some of that enthusiasm is perhaps the art of a successful distro or opensource project. Daniel