Somewhat of a Hanlon's razor, a lot of open source projects arent maintained, they are thrown over the wall, similiarly a lot of project maintainers are very bu

Somewhat of a Hanlon's razor, a lot of open source projects arent maintained, they are thrown over the wall, similiarly a lot of project maintainers are very busy and unless they get a pull request then they are quite likely to ignore it, as projects gets popular it easily gets the point where maintainers have 'no' time to code, and spend their time guiding contributions. Ultimately if a maintainer isnt showing interest in taking your contributions then it just isnt a project you want to carry on attempting to, it takes some a little time and maybe experience to find a suitable project. Certainly dont make sweeping statements about nobody contributing to open source because programmers dont like helping each other, there may be exceptions but the people contributing to OS is growing faster than ever