Almost 4 fifths of builders (79%) consider that contributing to open supply tasks has helped additional their careers, however 78% nonetheless say that firms ought to pay them for the time spent on contributions.
That is based on a brand new survey from the CNCF and TAG Contributor Technique (TAG CS), which is a gaggle inside the CNCF that helps the group’s tasks construct and preserve sustainable contributor methods.
The highest profession advantages from engaged on open-source tasks included studying from collaboration with others and advancing technical abilities.
As well as, sixty-five p.c of respondents say they work on bug fixes, 62% write documentation, and 55% work on writing new options, that are all transferable abilities in software program growth.
Fifty-nine p.c of respondents to the survey contribute to tasks on work time and 25% contribute full time.
The survey additionally discovered that over half (53%) had been “common, frequent, or high-volume” contributors and a 3rd had been maintainers.
Nearly all of respondents (59%) stated they plan to extend their contributions to CNCF tasks within the subsequent 12 months. Twenty-eight p.c of respondents will preserve their contributions on the identical quantity and fewer than 5 p.c stated they’ll contribute much less.
