It&#x27;s kind of hard to feel happy about something that:<p><pre><code>    - Takes very little time or energy
    - Makes you no income
    - Doesn&#x27;t usually lead to friendships
    - Doesn&#x27;t require much intelligence, to be truthful
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There&#x27;s no self-actuation, no challenge, no engagement, and ultimately no reward.<p>It&#x27;s just become routine, something I do to pass the time when not writing code for a client or when I need to unwind after a long day.<p>I&#x27;m aware that it&#x27;s a contribution and it does matter to some people, but I&#x27;ll never capture any of those $ of value anyway so it&#x27;s hard to get worked up over it.<p>I think the most valuable thing I&#x27;ve done for open source in the past year was send the guy who runs dotdeb one of the items on his Amazon wish list as a thanks for making the release candidates for PHP 7 available on Debian Jessie.<p>In the grand scheme of things, the needle remains unmoved.