> It's absurd to think that I should just pick up a random project and be obligated to make it better, and that I should be called out for giving advice on how

> It's absurd to think that I should just pick up a random project and be obligated to make it better, and that I should be called out for giving advice on how I think a project can be improved. You have no obligation to contribute to the project, but if you think it is lacking in some respects, making your own contribution is the most obvious way forward. So you give some constructive criticism, and the response is a suggestion for a way to address it. No one is telling you that you are obligated to contribute, and no one is calling you out. You want work done and you aren't compensating anyone for doing it, so the only way the work will ever be made is if some actual contributors' interests happen to align with yours, if you become a contributor yourself or if someone is willing to work for you without compensation. As it stands with this library, there is an open master issue to improve the documentation. The author has acknowledged the problem and is accepting pull requests to improve it. The general advice to improve the documentation is at this point is not adding any information to the contributors of the project, because now it's only a matter of actually documenting the issues in the github ticket system and for people to put in the work. The suggestion to make a contribution yourself makes even more sense given this context. > I shouldn't be forced to make a contribution to a project if I just don't think it's doing everything right. You use the words "obligation" and "force" very loosely throughout your post. It's not adding to your point that you blatantly misrepresent the suggestion to contribute the work that you want to see put into an open source project as some sort of coercion or shaming.