A contribution is a cost to the maintainer, not a gift: it is taking part, not merely using the code, that consumes a project’s scarcest resource.

Their wordsI often read advice along the lines of “if you want to help a project send PRs” and I never understood it. Reviewing and iterating or pushing back on PRs is work! Often more than writing the code itself.

Their wordsIt’s only when users cross over to the production side (ex. report bugs, ask questions, submit patches) that they start to impose costs.