I've never maintained a hugely popular open source project so maybe my opinion on this will change when that happens, but at the moment I am always over the moon (very happy) when someone submits any Pull Request to one of my projects.

And hey, sometimes I comment & close the request with "Thanks for this patch, but this isn't something I want to support." And that's OK!

My point is that my message to the author of this comic is to be bold and keep sending patches.