Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (2019)
I think there&#x27;s another side to this, which is that if you&#x27;re the maintainer of some open-source project and you actually want your software to be successful and widely used and generally to make the world a better place, you&#x27;re going to need to maintain a good relationship with your users.<p>When people report a bug, that&#x27;s actually valuable.  They&#x27;re telling you something for free that you would otherwise have had to devote time and effort on validation &#x2F; quality assurance to find.  If someone requests a feature, that&#x27;s telling you something about what users want (even if you might have perfectly valid reasons to decline the request).  For every random email you get, there&#x27;s probably a hundred more people thinking the same thing but didn&#x27;t write the email.<p>I think if I were to contact a maintainer of some project and they sent me to this page, my thought would be: &quot;oh, I guess this project is just a hobby project someone uploaded to github for posterity and they&#x27;re not actually interested in maintaining it.&quot;  That&#x27;s okay!  Not everyone has time for that.