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by StilesCrisis 273 days ago
I had a somewhat similar experience with libjpeg-turbo. Found a real bug, submitted a working PR, needed to argue my case that the bug was real despite providing examples, and eventually the maintainer paraphrased my PR into their own PR and landed their own fix. It's fine I suppose, but it was a weird experience.
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arccy 273 days ago
sometimes people have a strong vision for the code they maintain. in those cases they'll usually more happily accept issues, rather than code. but GitHub doesn't let you turn off prs...
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gus_massa 273 days ago
It's hard to know without looking at the datails, but in this case it would have been nice to add in the commit

> Thanks to @whoever for reporting the bug and providing a fix prototype.

(Probably prototype is not the correct word, but something like that.)

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zahlman 273 days ago
> (Probably prototype is not the correct word, but something like that.)

"... and suggesting a fix that inspired the actual change."

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