imagine if everyone could code and if they ran into an issue they could just fix it themselves. I thought this would be way more common since damus is open source, but we get close to an average of 1-...
Even for capable coders, it is far from easy to just jump into some open source project and fix a bug. Getting familiar with the code, setting up a project to work with your local dev tools (or setting up entirely new tools needed for the project), learning how to test a change (even if the project has existing test coverage), etc.
It's a pretty high barrier, one has to be very motivated to scratch that itch.
It's a pretty high barrier, one has to be very motivated to scratch that itch.