This is so true and so sad. It's what kills many projects: maintainers who think they have some holy mandate for "quality" and create such a difficult environme

This is so true and so sad. It's what kills many projects: maintainers who think they have some holy mandate for "quality" and create such a difficult environment for new contributors that we fork the project instead. Read my longer comment in this thread about the C4 process and imagine: you send a patch, and it's merged onto project master within half an hour, and you can then depend on it being available to you forever, as long as you invest in some documentation and tests (if it's a new feature).