Open Source · Jan 2025 – Apr 2026Our Contribution to
Our Contribution to
Open Source
The Aenix engineering team's full open source footprint — from Cozystack itself to upstream dependencies and personal projects.
1,557
Total OSS PRs
all categories
all categories
1,225
Cozystack org
PRs merged
PRs merged
58
External upstream
OSS PRs
OSS PRs
274
Personal OSS
PRs (lexfrei)
PRs (lexfrei)
12
Engineers
tracked
tracked
Overview
Three categories of contribution
Every merged pull request by an Aenix engineer to any open source repository, grouped into three categories and measured from each engineer's first commit to the organization (no earlier than January 2025).
Cozystack ecosystem
1,225
PRs across cozystack/* repos — the main product: cozystack/cozystack, talm, website, cozyhr, boot-to-talos, and more.
$262,493
~4,900 hours · avg 4h/PR
External OSS upstream
58
PRs to third-party projects the team depends on or builds with: seaweedfs, kilo, etcd-operator, kamaji, kubernetes-sigs, and more.
$26,410
~493 hours · varies 4–14h/PR
Personal OSS (lexfrei)
274
PRs across lexfrei's personal open source repositories: Helm charts, Cloudflare tunnel controller, Minecraft operator, and others.
$73,390
~1,370 hours · avg 5h/PR
External OSS
Upstream contributions
Pull requests to third-party open source projects — direct dependencies and adjacent ecosystem projects.
seaweedfs / seaweedfs
Object Lock CLI, named volumes, COSI sidecar, trafficDistribution, BucketClass params. Contributed by 5 engineers.
kvaps · IvanHunters · klinch0 · nbykov0 · sircthulhu
aenix-io / etcd-operator
Metrics port, TLS client certs, VPA support, kube-rbac-proxy replacement. Aenix's own open source etcd operator.
lllamnyp(4) · kvaps · klinch0
seaweedfs / seaweedfs-cosi-driver
Object Lock WORM, IAM accessPolicy, disk/replication BucketClass params, concurrency safety, Go 1.24 CI.
IvanHunters
squat / kilo
Cilium encapsulation, WireGuard MTU auto-detect, --internal-cidr flag, topology handling improvements.
kvaps
piraeusdatastore / helm-charts + linstor
Scheduler template, KubeSchedulerConfig v1, k8s version suffix handling, RWX block volume validation.
kvaps · lexfrei
clastix / kamaji
Configurable startup probe threshold; fix label preservation to avoid overwriting third-party metadata.
lexfrei · lllamnyp
kubernetes-sigs / COSI
Container Object Storage Interface. Reconciliation logic fix and bucket naming improvements.
kvaps
Homebrew + NixOS / nixpkgs
talm shell completions in Homebrew; talm 0.22.1 init in NixOS; cozyhr 1.6.1 Homebrew formula.
kitsunoff · lexfrei
CNCF landscape, foundation, gitdm
Cozystack listed in CNCF landscape; maintainers in foundation; affiliation mapping in gitdm.
kvaps · tym83 · lexfrei
kubernetes-sigs / external-dns
Re-enqueue failed events in the controller work queue for better DNS sync reliability.
lexfrei
VictoriaMetrics / operator
Conserve custom labels on services — prevents unexpected label loss during reconciliation.
lllamnyp
kubevirt, kubeovn, keycloak & others
kubevirt/csi-driver deadlock fix; kubeovn/kube-ovn Helm fix; epam/edp-keycloak-operator; grafana/grafana-operator; meshtastic/python; gethomepage/homepage.
kvaps · lexfrei · lllamnyp · klinch0
Full Picture
All contributions — CNCF definition
Beyond merged pull requests: issues opened, code reviews, and discussion participation across all public repositories, Jan 2025 – Apr 2026.
Issues opened
456+
Bugs, feature requests, and questions filed across all public repos
PR reviews
1,309+
Pull requests reviewed — code quality, correctness, and architecture
Comments
1,855+
Issue + PR discussion threads participated in
Non-PR total
3,620+
Issues + reviews + comments combined (excl. BROngineer)
| Project / Category | Merged PRs | Issues | Reviews | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cozystack ecosystem | ||||
| cozystack/cozystack | 878 | 124 | 1,105 | 1,372 |
| cozystack/website | 169 | |||
| cozystack/talm | 85 | |||
| cozystack/cozyhr | 12 | |||
| cozystack/boot-to-talos | 8 | |||
| cozystack/talos-preboot-iso | 6 | |||
| cozystack/ansible-cozystack | 5 | |||
| + cozystack-scheduler, kubeovn-chart, cozyvalues-gen, homebrew-tap, kubeapps… | ~8 | |||
| Cozystack subtotal | 1,225 | 124 | 1,105 | 1,372 |
| External OSS upstream | ||||
| seaweedfs/seaweedfs + cosi-driver | 15 | 282 | 83 | 332 |
| aenix-io/etcd-operator | 6 | |||
| squat/kilo | 5 | |||
| piraeusdatastore/helm-charts + linstor | 4 | |||
| CNCF landscape, foundation, gitdm | 3 | |||
| Homebrew + NixOS/nixpkgs | 3 | |||
| clastix/kamaji | 2 | |||
| kubernetes-sigs/COSI | 2 | |||
| kubernetes-sigs/external-dns | 1 | |||
| VictoriaMetrics/operator | 1 | |||
| kubevirt, kubeovn, keycloak, grafana, meshtastic, gethomepage | 6 | |||
| External subtotal | 58 | 282 | 83 | 332 |
| Personal OSS (lexfrei) | ||||
| charts, cloudflare-tunnel-gw, extractedprism, minecraft-operator, k8s, kuberture, terraform-provider-namedotcom, claudeline, mcp-tg | 274 | included in external totals | ||
| Grand total | 1,557 | 456+ | 1,309+ | 1,855+ |
"Comments" = unique issues/PRs where the engineer commented (issue + PR comments). Non-PR data via GitHub Search API; per-project breakdown not available — shown at category level. BROngineer profile is search-API restricted; numbers are lower bounds.
Investment
Value of the contribution ?Methodology: Engineer cost $9,000/month all-in → $53.57/hr (168 working hours/month). PR effort estimates: minor/doc 4h · bug fix 6h · feature 10h · complex 12–14h · Cozystack avg 4h (high-velocity project) · Personal OSS avg 5h. All estimates are conservative.
Total PRs
1,557
all three categories combined
Total hours
6,763 h
40.3 engineer-months
Total value
$362 k
$362,293 equivalent
Cost per PR
$232 avg
weighted across all categories
Cozystack ecosystem
1,225 PRs · avg 4h/PR
4,900 hours
$262,493
External OSS upstream
58 PRs · avg 8.5h/PR
493 hours
$26,410
Personal OSS (lexfrei)
274 PRs · avg 5h/PR
1,370 hours
$73,390
Last updated: 2026-04-20