>Open source maintainer is a stressful, thankless job which pays peanuts compared to what you could get for the skills and time. Well, it needs to be something

>Open source maintainer is a stressful, thankless job which pays peanuts compared to what you could get for the skills and time. Well, it needs to be something of interest to a company that will pay someone to be a maintainer as part of their day job. Or it needs to be something that someone has built a business around--but, as you suggest, their job is now a lot more than just being a maintainer and, in many cases, they make a lot less than just taking a job at a company.