Question! I'll assume your employer is paying you for your work project. For example, if you fixed the bug yourself, your employer would pay you for your time. If the maintainer fixes the bug, should your employer pay them for that work?
The answer is obvious. If your employer is the one road blocked by this then pay the maintainers. If they don’t want to, then fuck off.
I can’t believe the level of entitlement of some of these replies. These are largely people giving you their work for free. You have no rights to their time.
