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Re:Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source by dubberx on Monday February 27, 2017 @09:48AM (#13744567)
> give the requestor commit access.

Why wouldn't a requestor just fork the project and continue from there?

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Re:Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source by Flenser on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:52AM (#13752808)
They've already forked the project in order to make the pull request. The pull request shows that they'd like to also fix the issue for all the users of the original repo.
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