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Question for maintainers of popular open source projects: Would you prefer two days of developer time/month, or a comparable cash donation? Charitable organiza

Question for maintainers of popular open source projects: Would you prefer two days of developer time/month, or a comparable cash donation? Charitable organizations often prefer the cash [1], but open source is different -- I suspect many developers have more context and preparation than the typical volunteer. On the other hand few people will be as efficient in a code base as the original authors. [1] (http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2014/mar/03/which-would-you-rather-have-time-or-money http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2014/mar...)

jkot 11y ago
Well formatted bug report, with test case to reproduce issue is most helpful.
DRMacIver 11y ago
Personally I'd like to embrace the power of 'and'. :-) As someone who is going to be trying to make a living from his open source work in the near future, it sure would be nice to be given money by companies. But there's also more work than I can actually do on my own full time and extra labour would be nice too. The additional problem is that there a lot of small open source projects that get used by don't really have the numbers that donations would give them enough money to live on, so they can't quit the day job. For those people time is actually much shorter than money. (Disclaimer: I wrote twodaymanifesto.com)