[Liftyee]

Neat find! This proves to me a huge benefit of open source software: individual developers can satisfy their curiosity towards particular issues (with additional motivation from being personally affected) and improve the package for everyone once it's fixed.

[bla3]

Except it wasn't improved in this case, if I'm reading the gist correctly. The author didn't like their fix enough to make a pull request.

[EdSchouten]

Just like “this entire meeting could have been an email”, all this effort writing this gist could have been spent creating a PR.