[bobbytherobot]

"you probably won't have to work as hard"

For me, it was a question of: do I put in 40% to get 90% completed, or do I put in 150% to get 99% completed?

[throwaway9191a]

I'd like to echo this, along with the "relax" sentiment from other comments.

I worked incredibly hard to open source a project at a faang. I was even given a customer obsession award for it. No promo.. and no promo level projects for the next year or so... and now this open source project is "too old" for promo consideration.

I've learned to relax and give just enough to not be marked LE. I now have a lot of time to dedicate to other pursuits.

[nnoitra]

LE?

[0xEFF]

Low Energy I think.

[foogazi]

How was business impact measured when deciding to open source the project?

[throwaway9191a]

Probably too late to respond, but just in case.

We were measuring the number of similar support requests that came to the team. Our library would allow customers to resolve these problems on their own. We had a good estimate of reduced requests, but not a good estimate increased time to maintain the open source library.

[bryanmgreen]

That is so accurate and succinct.

I'd say 40% for 80-85% from my experience.

[chubot]

Yeah, I think that's accurate and reflects the low level of polish in many newer Google products