“So, you decided to contribute to open source”

I don't know why people take this stuff so personally. I maintain open source resources and for the most part people have been fine. Most of my complaints are that I don't always get reproducible bugs and I don't have enough time to do everything. Even if someone comes in acting all entitled, that's their problem, not mine - since in reality I'm under no obligation to support their use case.

I understand that as infrastructure maintainers, you only get noticed when your stuff breaks, so you may feel under siege for doing a thankless job, but honestly the incentives will never change, so it's probably helps to try to recognize how much control you have in that kind of situation.

My biggest pain point when I contribute to open source has always been the owner/maintainers being unresponsive to new issues/pull requests.

I wonder if this is a consequence of the behavior Hammer is describing?

This is also available as a blog post: https://medium.com/@eranhammer/so-you-decided-to-contribute-...