Exactly, I often say: yes, this seems like a valid bug report but I am currently focusing on other things at the moment, though I will be happy to review and accept a pull request if you figured out how to solve your problem. I have yet to see an entitled reaction to that (maybe I am lucky though).
Your experience matches with mine, if people request features I don't feel like working on, I reply with "yes, this is something I would merge if a PR were submitted, thank you!".
Then again, my experience with FOSS has been almost exclusively positive. People have never been entitled to me, they've always been helpful, and I've gotten people co-maintaining projects and submitting lots of PRs to me as well.
It was perhaps that optimism that led me to create https://www.codeshelter.co/, which didn't really do very well. Turns out not as many people want to maintain projects as I thought.
Thanks! I used to come across unmaintained projects that I'd be willing to merge some PRs for (they'd usually have them pile up), that's how I came up with the idea.
I think most people expect that they'd add their project and get immediate help, when the project is more a backup plan to straight up abandoning a project. I think you're the first person other than me to get excited by it, so thanks!
