> But I imagine that new and old contributors get some satisfaction when their contribution get "merged into master", no matter how much that sounds like yieldi

> But I imagine that new and old contributors get some satisfaction when their contribution get "merged into master", no matter how much that sounds like yielding to the hierarchy. I spent one day in my weekend upgrading a couple of Rubygems to be compatible with Ruby 2.5 after some things were deprecated. One of the authors just closed my PR, left no comments, and committed his own changes to master. His solution was a little bit different than my own, but he was able to commit to my branch. A "Thank you", or a "Hey! I did not know that it was deprecated in 2.5, thanks!" would have been appreciated, and I felt a bit miffed even though it is not a big thing.