> it's your duty ...
> it's your responsibility ...
If open source project owners owe people exactly nothing, then certainly open source project users have neither the duty nor the responsibility to contribute anything back, either.
> it's your responsibility ...
If open source project owners owe people exactly nothing, then certainly open source project users have neither the duty nor the responsibility to contribute anything back, either.
If you want help from a project maintainer to fix your submitted issue you have a duty to provide them enough information to solve it.
If your project has a dependency on a library it's your responsibility to your own code to make sure that proposed fixes work.
Even though I use all of their software, I honestly don't care about the Linux, Java, Node, Emacs, or Python "communities" and it is frankly silly for open source developers to expect me to. I have real communities and responsibilities to devote unpaid labor to.