How often do you contribute to open source projects?

Existing established open source projects? Basically never.

My own piles of shit with open source licenses? All the time.

Daily. It's my job.

I try to contribute as much info as I can to Open Street Map on my walks.

104 contributions in last year on codeberg, 52 contributions on github (some are duplicated from codeberg due to mirroring), some more in other places.

I like to think that using FOSS daily, singing its praises to everyone and filing out the occasional bug report counts.

I'm using StreetComplete to contribute to OpenStreetmap almost daily.

Does that count?

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

@const_void every time i think i can help a project with a feature i need

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.

I hope to one day, but I don't have any programming skills to speak of

Its practically been all my free time in the past 14 years

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.

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 :(

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.

I donate ~30$ a month divided over a few projects but I want to donate more once I can and also to bigger things that would donate for me to many projects and not just the ones that I think of (please give suggestions to such projects or foundations!)

• 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.

At the moment never.

Every year, around Christmas I donate to a project that I use a lot. Also some projects more than once (wikipedia, Signal)

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.

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.

Monthly donations and code once in a while when I run into a bug or require a feature and have time.

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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.

I write a lot of my own software and open source it. And very few of those projects ever have/get any contributions from anyone else. In fact, most of the recent ones literally only have one commit out on Gitlab. And it's pretty rare that I contribute to existing open source projects.

Many years ago, I contributed as part of my job a fair amount to a some WYSIWYG documentation writing web app associated with the Gentoo project. I think that web app is long-since dead and gone. (Not my fault, I promise. Lol.)

Oh, also, I wrote a lot of code as part of the same job that I was always promised would be open sourced, but I kindof had to leave without pushing that issue and that code hasn't ever been open sourced. It's bullshit that still bothers me today, but there's nothing really that I can do about it now. The place is out of business. I could theoretically contact the guy who was in charge (he would have inherited all of that company's intellectual property and would have the right to open source it now), but that guy's the kind of person I'd much rather never have any contact with again. It's a whole thing.

Since then, nothing concrete I can think of.

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.

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.

About 35.0% of my waking life is contributing to FOSS.

Mostly its filing bug reports. Sometimes I write my own code

As often as a I can.

Almost daily to the Jellyfin Roku client.

Come join us if you want to work on some cool crap!

I've created/maintain 5 programs for this rather niche but rather popular Linux based tablet. All of my programs exist to give the owners more freedom with their device and gives users a plausible way to avoid uploading all of their data to the company's cloud. I created installation scripts but also packed the programs into the community package manager. The programs are all feature complete so I hop on every other week or so for basic maintenance and to test how my programs work after the tablet updates. I'm pretty much always around to help users troubleshoot.

Past that I have a few random contributions to OSS I use for bugs I've identified and have been able to fix.

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 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.

Practically every day.

Don't do NixOS kids...

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

I've done a few documentation contributions for some projects. Turns out that technical writers and editors are appreciated in certain places.

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?

Only GPL protected code. I mostly create issues and update documentation

Probably too often

If it's something easy to fix or add, worth the time to make a pull request.

Otherwise mostly bug reports and feature requests lol

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.

Way too often. Maintainers wish I didn't...

Unfortunately never. I'm no Linux programmer and I have no idea how to use that space-shuttle-cockpit-shaped menu for crowd translation

So far, once.

Not good enough :(

Once a year. I usually give half to the same set of orgs and the rest to things I've found useful or inspiring that year.

Like once or twice a year I will open pull requests to libraries I use that have problems or missing features.

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.

I regularly do bug reports. I would contribute more, but I simply don't have the time.

Most of the time is translations but from time to time is a tiny bit of code.

I mostly write bug reports as my code is not up to par with most projects and my native language is always already translated...

I rarely find a situation where I need a feature that doesn't exist that's important enough to me to implement it myself. It's a heck of a lot easier to just, for example, purchase things that already work with an existing home assistant integration.

I suppose I could contribute with bug fixes and such, but I have a lot of hobbies that I'm already busy with, and I do development work as my main job.

A few times a month. I am active with issue reporting and fixes for some Godot extensions and React projects. I've also opened source my own crap.

A few times per year. Mostly janitorial work.

Sometimes, Issues in software that I'm interested. I don't code, just very simple shell scripting. For that reason I have a GitHub account, and other one in Gitlab that I did for just 1 project.

Never. The few times I've tried the community was just too toxic.