Great point — this matches my intuition, but I’ve never participated in any serious open source projects, so I wasn’t sure how feasible it would actually be to get useful contributions. I’ve volunteered to help with a few coding projects in the past, and most of the time I quickly lose motivation to work on them. So I expect most volunteers to also get bored/​distracted and not do anything useful.
Great point — this matches my intuition, but I’ve never participated in any serious open source projects, so I wasn’t sure how feasible it would actually be to get useful contributions. I’ve volunteered to help with a few coding projects in the past, and most of the time I quickly lose motivation to work on them. So I expect most volunteers to also get bored/​distracted and not do anything useful.