The volunteer hours are used to offer contributions. Those contributions are accepted or rejected. If you control what gets accepted or rejected, you control th

The volunteer hours are used to offer contributions. Those contributions are accepted or rejected. If you control what gets accepted or rejected, you control the definition of how the volunteer hours are used effectively in terms of the final result. Remember: "open source" has never meant anyone can get changes upstreamed. It has always only meant anyone can use the source downstream. This confusion has resulted in a lot of indignant outrage by armchair contributors.