Set a realistic maximum limit for the "Time commitment" field in Profiles / 5ftF

[Marc4]

In the profile settings, where users specify the amount of time they spend contributing to WordPress, the input field allows them to set a maximum of 168 hours per week.

Since a week has exactly 168 hours, it is physically impossible for a person to contribute 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without sleeping.

The system should impose a realistic weekly maximum limit (for example, a maximum of 40 hours per week) so that the profile data is accurate and meaningful.

[yani.iliev]

Thanks for the report! This is intentional, so closing as wontfix; here's the reasoning.

The field is capped at 168 in three places (the input's max, the stepper's clamp, and a server-side min( 168, absint( $hours ) ) on save), so nonsense values above a week's worth of hours are already rejected. 168 is the physical bound of a week, which makes it a principled limit rather than an arbitrary one.

A lower "realistic" cap like 40 would reject honest data: full-time sponsored contributors are at exactly 40, and plenty of maintainers and agency owners genuinely put in more across sponsored and self-directed time combined. Any threshold we pick above 40 and below 168 is a judgment call about other people's work weeks, and the field is self-reported intent either way, so a tighter cap adds false precision without making the data more truthful. The public profile shows the total and the split, and unrealistic self-reports reflect on the profile owner rather than the platform.