> ...but in the open source community is often used as an excuse to ignore what would otherwise be high priority bugs. Key word here is community - it's not ju

> ...but in the open source community is often used as an excuse to ignore what would otherwise be high priority bugs. Key word here is community - it's not just up to the maintainers and regular contributors (who may already be overtaxed with both their day jobs and managing the software project for no pay). Users who have a particularly urgent itch to scratch have to step up - if they're not technical, perhaps put a bounty on the fix so someone else is financially motivated to fix it. Abusing (IMO) maintainers by screaming at them to hurry-up-and-fix-it is not helpful, especially since they are volunteering their free time.