[jillesvangurp]

There is a lot of unmaintained code out there. When somebody steps up and starts doing meaningful work to fix that, stepping out of the way and letting them do their thing is a very appropriate way to get the changes out to users.

Ultimately open source is based on trust. Code reviews are nice if you can get them but github is full of projects with pull requests that aren't getting reviewed. That's frustrating for contributors and users.

I tend to feel bad when somebody submits a pull request to one of my projects and I don't have time to properly review it. It happens sometimes. But I tend to bias towards merging the work unless I see something really wrong with such pull requests in which case, I'll inform the contributor. Ultimately, OSS should be a meritocracy. People doing the work gain power and trust. Nothing wrong with that.