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by kingosticks 3463 days ago
> If I do contact the maintainer before I do any change, that means I'm making a commitment to do that change, which is not something I want to do.

There doesn't have to be a commitment to do anything. You are opening an issue and starting a dialogue. If you then disappear, someone else can come along later and implement/fix it with the benefit of the original discussion.