[dalke]

You wrote that this was the first time you had ever made any contributions to a project. You therefore have no idea of what is expected for this situation. You state that it wasn't what you expected. You haven't explained why what you expected is reasonable, vs. being the views of an irate snowflake.

You also omitted what you did, other than waiting, writing a blog post complaint about it, and linking to your own post from Hacker News. In it you characterized your viewpoints as something which should generally be applied to all projects, when it's mostly applicable to those which want to encourage participation by new people.

And yes, your term 'commandments' is very strong - you take on the persona of lawgiver when you use it.

A longer discussion of some of the issues is at http://producingoss.com/en/managing-volunteers.html .