I agree that it's a rude response, but hinting at them submitting a patch would never work. Those who lean towards that would just do so without asking. It's

I agree that it's a rude response, but hinting at them submitting a patch would never work. Those who lean towards that would just do so without asking. It's the rest of the people that need the pointer. For many of my projects, my answer would be worse in their eyes: Fork it and do what you like. I have no intention of adding bloat to this project. That's far more rude, but totally truthful. I created that project for a purpose, and I was nice enough to BSD license it so others could do -anything- they want with it. Asking me to change it to your liking is going too far. Of course, that assumes I don't want the feature. If I do like it, then I'll happily add it to my backlog and then ignore it until I feel like working on it.