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I value the altruism of open source.

But I do not value people that piggyback on existing high profile projects for personal gain.

If someone tells me they contribute to a project, I would usually check what was actually contributed.

A couple of unit tests and docs are always helpful but do not give enough credit compare to the effort of building such projects.

> A couple of unit tests and docs are always helpful but do not give enough credit compare to the effort of building such projects.

If a contributor is responsible for significant part of the code coverage, funding or documentation, by all means kudos.

But someone that donated $5 or wrote 2 test cases and a couple of comments to me is a casual contributor not a core contributor.