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Help Me Help You, Maintainers

My plea with OSS maintainers on how they can help me help them.

Open source projects, created by individuals or small teams to satisfy a specific desire they have or problem they want to solve, are adopted en masse by large organizations whose primary interest in consuming them are saving time and/or money. Often they're left in a sort of limbo state, being pushed forward by one or two people while the community exists in a primarily consumption role. Because the open-source community doesn't adopt any sort of consistent cross-project set of guidelines (see weird libertarian bent) it is up to each one to tell me how they'd like to me assist them.

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