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Application domain may have something to do with it, language also. As a maintainer of Javascript and Ruby libraries, the difference in entitlement and cluelessness is remarkable.

The Ruby community has always struck me as friendly and welcoming.

This is encouraging to hear. My company built a tool to improve website accessibility. It fills a niche. We're almost ready to open source it. Basically just need to make the Github repo public.

The one thing that gives me pause is the prospect of having to manage a bunch of unfriendly feature requests and bug reports. Here's hoping we find ourselves in a virtuous niche.

What is it / what niche?

https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo - niche is: "self-hosted apps"