Re:Why I close pull requests
by mgbmtl on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:47PM
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Presumably you mean: "don't send requests [for new features] out of the blue"?
I would add: if you do, don't expect the maintainer to merge it. Once it's merged, it becomes their technical debt.
Nonetheless, as a maintainer I always appreciate a pull-request, and as a developer I might fork/apply non-merged patches for projects where I needed that feature as well. In some cases, since they saved me a lot of time, I might fix their abandoned/closed patch and re-submit it upstream.
I would add: if you do, don't expect the maintainer to merge it. Once it's merged, it becomes their technical debt.
Nonetheless, as a maintainer I always appreciate a pull-request, and as a developer I might fork/apply non-merged patches for projects where I needed that feature as well. In some cases, since they saved me a lot of time, I might fix their abandoned/closed patch and re-submit it upstream.