I think it depends on the project. I get a ton of feature requests that are off the beaten trail. I basically give people the feed back of: We have limited band

I think it depends on the project. I get a ton of feature requests that are off the beaten trail. I basically give people the feed back of: We have limited bandwidth, but I'm happy to point you in the right direction. "Contribute or shut up" worded differently may not be an ideal answer but it's an understandable one. Imagine if you were a resource constrained engineer having hundreds of queries and emails a day about certain things users want and then not only have that feature not be something of interest to anyone but that user but also have it be something that isn't even on your road map. Technology that's general purpose enough (in our case machin e learning/scientific computing) will give you this. There's a huge delta between say: a resource constrained but heavily used project and a javascript lib that only provides a slightly better basic widget. It's no excuse for OSS devs to be rude but I hope you can understand what it looks like from our side a bit.