Seek to disambiguate maintainer/developer/issue-reporter #3
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Some of the wording seems to imagine that the person reporting an issue is a "developer" -- this can often not be the case; plenty of repositories contain code for applications that aren't aimed at developers, and the users of those applications are still encouraged to report problems via GitHub. I suspect this site will be even more useful to such projects.
I've also modified one instance of developer being used to mean maintainer.
The X/Y problem article seems to lean heavily into "folk reporting are developers"; I've left that alone as I guess it's more common to be the case there; but perhaps it's worth us rethinking the wording there so it's also helpful to maintainers of repositories where the target user base isn't other developers.