[bowlich]

Fork it, fix it. Pull in upstream changes until the maintainer fixes it. I suppose file a ticket with a snippet of what I did to fix it so a regular contributor can create a request faster.

If this is a random one-off drive by bug, then why go through the hassle of figuring out what particular standards any individual maintainer wants to follow just to have it turned down, or discover that some regular contributor already patched it while I reading the documentation.

(I mean, I'd love to contribute, but the few times that I've stumbled upon a bug, fixed it, figured everything the maintainer wanted in a pull request... it was aleady fixed by the maintainer and I'd just wasted a lot of time)

[chii]

> Pull in upstream changes until the maintainer fixes it

that's not a very scalable thing to do, as it involves unbounded amount of work. what if the maintainer never pull in your fix?