Why are you being so condescending? A person wants to get into an open source project, so takes work he knows others won't finish before him, and you're talking

Why are you being so condescending? A person wants to get into an open source project, so takes work he knows others won't finish before him, and you're talking to him like he's a noob (you have no clue how long ago this was). Hell, you don't even know if the tickets were outdated.