I contribute to free software. When a user asks me to change something, most of the time I am quite happy to do that. Sometimes a user asks me to change somethi

I contribute to free software. When a user asks me to change something, most of the time I am quite happy to do that. Sometimes a user asks me to change something, with the message that it is easy and won't take much time. Those requests get instantly put on the backburner, and maybe a year later I start working on them. It really irks me the wrong way. Just an analogy... Suppose on a nice summer sunday afternoon, you are walking or cycling on the country side. You come past a farm, and they have free apples on the side of the road that you can take with you. You pick one, but find that there is a bad spot on that apple. First thing you do is throw it against the front wall of the farm. The farmer comes outside and you tell him he should be more carefull in picking apples, it is easy to do that and won't take much time. Next week you are there again, and there are no free apples anymore.