Comment by rldjbpin

as an inexperienced, thankless issue-raiser in this world, i can give my 0.02 on this.

a lot of open-source today seems like the charitable organizations of the world. the idea is to give selflessly, but a lot of it has become about lowkey entitlement, just because "nobody else is doing it" or will do it without our support.

on the other hand, i do empathize with the double-edge nature of accessibility to open-source platforms. while using git can still be a daunting task, raising issues or "contributions" has become easier than making a ticket in most teams' Jira. again, you can choose to adapt to the platforms or just have a simple one that you control. i might raise well-thought out issues once in a while when it affects my work projects, but i will not even consider using the mailing list for a linux kernel issue. maybe that is a good way to get rid of the noise.

i envy those who could generously give and also enjoy the process of just coding for its sake. those who don't do open-source with these ideas should not be asking for anything in return. we are not owed anything, no matter what good can come out of our work.