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In my experience this is usually a recipe for unhappiness, similar to choosing a college major by “following your passion.” If you want to enjoy working on FOS
by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
In my experience this is usually a recipe for unhappiness, similar to choosing a college major by “following your passion.”
If you want to enjoy working on FOSS, choose to solve a problem that lots of users need solved, the more mundane the better, then make your whole backlog focused on what the user tells you.
FOSS needs product / market (of attention) fit like anything else. Unless you are your own user for a real use case, you need other real users to be the sole driver.
- ganafagol 6y agoThe analogy with a college major is not a good fit. College education needs to provide you with a job later that puts food on the table. Not every moment of that is fun, hopefully many moments are though. But the only reward with volunteer work in FOSS is the fun you get out of it. That's your compensation. So if you don't like what you are doing, stop doing it. Don't try to mainly please others, unless that's what gives you pleasure.