[mstade]

I agree, but as a contributor there’s only so much you can do if the receiving end isn’t, well, receiving.

Plenty of people try to contribute but either the receiving end is unreasonably difficult to work with – or, as is perhaps more often the case – simply aren’t responding at all. It’s hard to get on a call where the other end isn’t picking up, as it were.

I’ve seen this first hand several times. Despite numerous attempts to make things as easy as possible to merge, providing ample documentation for the changes, making yourself available etc., the receiving end simply isn’t picking up. At some point you just give up and let it be. Sometimes, I’ve seen my PRs get picked up months or even over a year after initially submitted, at which point even I as the author don’t know what the PR is all about anymore...