If the OP would consider becoming a maintainer of a project they contribute to, and then follow their own advice, they do have some warrant to their complaints,

If the OP would consider becoming a maintainer of a project they contribute to, and then follow their own advice, they do have some warrant to their complaints, otherwise not so much, for the reasons you state. I got a substantial pull request to an open source project of mine [1] that I don't have much time for, and followed the "Pull Request Hack" [2] and made the committer a maintainer. My GitHub notifications for that project now follows this pattern: "Random user: Hi, please merge my changes", "Maintainer: Thanks for your contribution, I made some changes and merge it in!". That's pretty fulfilling. 1: https://github.com/jacobrask/node-upnp-device https://github.com/jacobrask/node-upnp-device 2: http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html (although this was before I read the article)