I run a project called ioquake3 that has been out for almost a decade and we are in desperate needs of more technical folks to help spec out and plan development for the most boring parts of the framework we need to remain relevant in 2015.
Finding the boring things that other people don't do is exactly the most valuable thing you can do for any open-source project.
This is absolutely false. There was no coverage that was slanted for her free game after she supposedly slept with anyone. This is not about ethics, if it were that would have been an issue when BIG publishers started paying youtubers to cover games without any negative language. Or any of the other actual scandals. Not when ONE indie game developer happened to have some dirty laundry aired by an asshole.
Finding the boring things that other people don't do is exactly the most valuable thing you can do for any open-source project.