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Project coordination with opensource projects is a really difficult problem where you simply can't win. Sometimes a project is just bad and needs an overhaul even if it means 40% of the code has to be thrown out. Sometimes people fork the project but most of the time a project is started from scratch because it means full ownership and therefore a more productive working environment.

The number of times I've seen something that amounts to a 1-3 line code change being discussed for hours is absurd. If you are a new contributor who wants to help out by writing code it often feels like you are making the maintainers work harder than if you had done nothing for the project.