This is petty and childish. The primary purpose of open-source software is not to pad your resume, and besides only one minor bug fix isn't going to get you hi

This is petty and childish. The primary purpose of open-source software is not to pad your resume, and besides only one minor bug fix isn't going to get you hired anywhere on its own. The maintainer probably should've been a little more generous with his attribution than just posting "reported by:" in the bug fix, but ultimately OP is just the guy who reported the bug not who fixed it. They aren't obligated to fix the bug the way some rando on the email thread wants it to be fixed because it's still their code. This isn't just the way open-source works, it's also the way most corporations work. It's also perfectly normal for a bug report to contain an example fix because the reporter knows how to make it go away but not necessarily how to make it go away the "right" way so I can easily understand how the maintainer saw this as a "reported-by". Calling them out on a blog post that you then submit to hackernews doesn't make you seem like a pleasant person to work with either.