At the risk of mirroring antirez's response, and on top of that I suspect I might be misreading you, but still:
> If the guys deploying it have skin the game and you don't, your helping out encourages the dynamic that FOSS author time is worth less than paid dev time, that rather than send patches just complain and let the little people take care of those details. For free.
A good bug-report isn't merely whining, it's a contribution to the quality of the project. It takes some amount of time and effort to file a decent bug-report, and it helps the project better achieve its goal. It's less valuable than a good quality pull-request to fix the issue, but it still counts. (The same is true of good quality feature-requests, but to a much lesser extent in my view.)
That's different from someone having a sense of entitlement. Unless you're on their payroll, you aren't obliged to prioritise their bug. More generally, you aren't obliged to continue your involvement in the project in any way.
> If the guys deploying it have skin the game and you don't, your helping out encourages the dynamic that FOSS author time is worth less than paid dev time, that rather than send patches just complain and let the little people take care of those details. For free.
A good bug-report isn't merely whining, it's a contribution to the quality of the project. It takes some amount of time and effort to file a decent bug-report, and it helps the project better achieve its goal. It's less valuable than a good quality pull-request to fix the issue, but it still counts. (The same is true of good quality feature-requests, but to a much lesser extent in my view.)
That's different from someone having a sense of entitlement. Unless you're on their payroll, you aren't obliged to prioritise their bug. More generally, you aren't obliged to continue your involvement in the project in any way.