> The way people (usually) contribute to an open source project on GitHub is using pull requests. I disagree with this premise. The way people usually contrib

> The way people (usually) contribute to an open source project on GitHub is using pull requests. I disagree with this premise. The way people usually contribute to an open source project on GitHub is creating an issue or adding to a discussion. IMHO this is more valuable than actually writing code because it helps other developers gauge the relative demand for a feature/bugfix and sometimes you find out that other people have already solved the problem in their own forks.