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by pm24601 3360 days ago
Most open-source code is not managed very well (why should it be?)

I always fire off an issue with an offer to patch. If no response, then no patch submitted even if I have a patch.

I don't submit the patch because code moves on. A few commits later by someone else and the patch can no longer be cleanly applied. So I don't do the work on the patch if it will not be accepted.

Also I don't do nit picky code clean up. For example, if someone wants 2 space indentation and I did 4 ... they can accept the patch and use their IDE with their formatting rules to fix such things.