Keep in mind that if you make contributing to OSS onerous people will bail out. No one wakes up in the morning saying: “Oh boy! Today I’m going to do a bunch of work for free and give it all away. It will be awesome!” Most OSS contributors are thinking: “Hmmm, I’ve built something useful. Let’s see if anyone else can use it.” Or possibly, “Hmmm, I don’t really like the solutions to my problem. I’ll build something new. Since other developers probably have the problem, I’ll share it and help other people out.” In either case, when the project becomes more of a PITA than the positive feedback from users, the developer walks away.
