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I have a self-imposed limit of 4 hrs/day of productive code-writing; beyond that, quality drops too much to be sustainable. There's plenty of things to do during a workday, of course; salaried days deserve 8 hrs/day, and I've been on on-call rotations that require 12 hrs/day of presence.
In this case, we are discussing the leadership of a community project; the leaders are the ones who set policy for the project. In this sense, yeah, it's a political situation.
Given your username, I'm a little surprised that you wouldn't recognize that the leaders of community projects are politically important...