> Sending patches directly is a non-collaborative approach to open source. This is the way I’ve always done it —- find a bug, figure out a fix and shoot off a

> Sending patches directly is a non-collaborative approach to open source. This is the way I’ve always done it —- find a bug, figure out a fix and shoot off a patch attached to a bug report. Or, software doesn’t do what I want, hack it into submission then send a PR with a patch. Worked well so far. Sometimes they don’t like my code for whatever reason but that’s OK, I tried. The only real exception was when I contributed on a regular basis to one of the larger FLOSS projects where I’d usually run my changes by the module owner to get their feedback before committing since it was just good practice. Not always though.