alt Hacker NewsIt's rather unreasonable to be annoyed. The maintainers may have entirely different priorities, which is fine. They're also likely being spammed with low-effort bug reports (not yours necessarily but from others).
The great thing about open source projects you can just fix the bug yourself and submit a PR, or fork the whole project if the maintainers won't merge your changes. If you don't have the time or skills yourself then you can even pay a contractor to do it for you.
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You're right in that it's unreasonable to expect someone else work for you for free
But I would also say a quality bug report is a contribution in and of itself
Closing it without reason is also, literally, unreasonable
You pay contractors to fix open source bugs? Tell me how that works
It is not about "priorities". Putting work into writing bug is utterly useless, because if the maintainer does not fix it in 2 months, the bug will be closed as stale. I am actually fine with open source project maintainer to prioritize stuff and hey, maybe that bug will be fixed in 6 months when they have time. But I am not fine being told "we did not had time for 2 moths, therefore we are closing your bug" as is standard on github now.
Do not throw the ball back with "this happens because bugs are not well written". Stalebot closes bug regardless of whether they are well written and ensures no one will put effort into writing another well written bug again.
> It's rather unreasonable to be annoyed.
I disagree. If you discover that a bug that makes an open source library unusable to you, after spending time on learning and using that library, and the authors close the bug as a wontfix, I think being annoyed is quite reasonable, even expected.