[remus]

> It doesn't sound like you respect your users at all.

I think that's a pretty harsh take. At the end of the day issue trackers are a tool for maintainers to help manage the project/codebase and the details are largely up to them. Im sure some maintainers also use it as a tool for communicating with users, but I don't think it should be compulsory. At the same time, if I as a user of a project add a bug then I do that as a favour to the maintainer. I don't think you should necessarily expect something back from the maintainer (assuming we're talking about open source here, not some payed service with an SLA etc.)