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It is not wrong to ask for changes or features or report problems, so long as you realize that the maintainer of the project is under no obligation to make those changes. You aren't paying them, so...
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#1: Initial revision
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Charlie Brumbaugh
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2021-02-08T05:24:44Z (about 3 years ago)
It is not wrong to ask for changes or features or report problems, so long as you realize that the maintainer of the project is under no obligation to make those changes. You aren't paying them, so you can't tell them what to do. Asking you to make those changes instead of them, plays by the same rules, you are under no obligation to people who are not paying you. At the same time if open-source project A doesn't meet your requirements and project B does, then you should just go ahead and use project B. If an open-source project isn't responsive to requests and doesn't upgrade with the times then eventually it will be replaced with a project that does or is significantly better.