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> It isn't going to help your resume potentially.

Of course it will. I mean, this is like saying 'making beautiful pieces of furniture won't improve your career as a woodworker'. It's always a benefit to have projects in your portfolio in any kind of skilled trade, whether done for free or pay.

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That's assuming you're making the equivalent of "beautiful pieces of furniture". There are quite a few people with open source contributions on their resume or their github account with repos that is not helping them, quite the opposite in fact.

So? If their code is of low quality, they can be filtered out based on that by the not-so-potential employer. Employers do not have to hire you, and not everyone knows how to write "good" code. If you cannot write code "properly", it will show one way or another. If you can, that is good, that will show, too!

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