No, it’s simple ethics and nothing more: credit where credit is due. The maintainer said this guy ‘reported’ the bug when he’d actually diagnosed and fixed it.

No, it’s simple ethics and nothing more: credit where credit is due. The maintainer said this guy ‘reported’ the bug when he’d actually diagnosed and fixed it. That was a mistake which the maintainer since apologized for, and the mistake could have been avoided without any additional time and effort on the maintainer’s part simply by using a more appropriate tag. You are really going off into outer space with this stuff about ‘market economics’ and ‘complex courting rituals’. In my experience, whenever I need to make very complex and wide-ranging arguments to justify my behavior, it usually means that I’m the asshole.