The OSS community needs to separate "I will be severely inconvenienced if you do not assist me" from "You are obligated to assist me."
This is probably true of communities-of-choice like OSS is, in addition to communities which exist naturally. This can't be absolute though.
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Minimally, OSS asks people to trade family time for community participation, and I'd find it *very* hard to gainsay someone reversing that.
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This is complicated by ecosystem issues which make particular contributors Systemically Important, which when it happens *is a bug damn it.*
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