Give away your code, but never your time

Re:Give away your code, but never your time by Deestan on Sunday September 10, 2017 @07:22PM (#15214855)

> I would love to, of course

If you did, you'd have found a way for it to work.

Making a pretty cool deploy script? Document it and put it out there as OSS.

Making a class/module to sort items semantically? Make it OSS.

Someone made an IDE extension to syntax highlight WebVTT files? Make i OSS.

Made a file lister/selector for JQuery? OSS.

Integrating 3rd party X with 3rd party Y? Opensource your module for it.

Unless all your developers do is hack stuff badly together in a monolithic mess, some of it can be opensourced.

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Re:Give away your code, but never your time by bdcravens on Sunday September 10, 2017 @08:04PM (#15214976)

It's one thing to write the code, but another thing to publish as open source. There's overhead: coordinating the PR in an existing project, responding to issues, writing a decent README, looking at PRs, etc in your own.

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Re:Give away your code, but never your time by tedmiston on Sunday September 10, 2017 @07:47PM (#15214921)

I read parent comment as referring to contributing to an existing active open source project vs just making things you've built open source.

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