How should I ask for help/bugfixes/solutions? How can I get across that an issue is a "showstopper" for us without demanding anything? "Can I hire you to fix

How should I ask for help/bugfixes/solutions? How can I get across that an issue is a "showstopper" for us without demanding anything? "Can I hire you to fix this? If you're not available, can you suggest someone else I could hire?" It doesn't even matter if I want to get paid (and for small things I'll often encourage people to make a donation to the FreeBSD Foundation instead); the fact that you're offering to pay for work communicates "this matters to us" far more clearly than "OMG THIS IS SO BROKEN WHY CAN'T YOU FIX IT ALREADY???".