feature requests An understated problem here is that opening an issue to create a "feature request" is seen by Github as a "contribution", one on par with actu

feature requests An understated problem here is that opening an issue to create a "feature request" is seen by Github as a "contribution", one on par with actually fixing bugs. We've got people going around opening hundreds of issues for silly things like variable names in products they don't even use, presumably with the aid of some bot. Nearly everything written in C or C++ has had a issue requesting the build system use autoconf, an issue requesting the use of CMake and a issue declaring scons is the best. Even if you liked all these tools, it would be absurd to satisfy all three requesters. None of these people are "contributing" in the way someone fixing a bug is.