Re: [Fink-devel] Where do you guys find the time?

[David R. <dbr...@ea...>]

On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My contributions to Fink can take a significant amount of time. It's not unusual to have to spend the better part of a day trying to get some tricky package to build correctly, especially one that needs patching. Yet I see more than a few contributors here who maintain far more packages than I do and have been involved with the project for years. It's as if Fink is their full-time job. I'm curious... Where do you guys find the time to contribute? Are you simply a very dedicated bunch of volunteers, or are you funded in some way? (I've heard of companies paying people to contribute to Linux, for example, but I didn't think Fink was on the same level.)
> 
> Trevor
> 

I don't think anyone is funded to do fink work. And the active maintainers are a dedicated group of volunteers. The group changes over time, and as work and/or family responsibilities demand more time, fink does take a back seat. And the core group is just very good. They can do stuff in 10 minutes that takes me a day and a half to figure out (with their help). I can do a few very narrow tasks pretty well these days. And it saves them a little bit of time sometimes. I find time because it's interesting, and I figure I still owe a whole bunch of people for all the help they gave me through the years with community software of one sort or another.

Dave
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