> what is there to gain by not getting up to speed on the design constraints by refusing to onboard or even engage with the maintainers? Usually my only engage

> what is there to gain by not getting up to speed on the design constraints by refusing to onboard or even engage with the maintainers? Usually my only engagement with maintainers is when their library doesn’t do what I want it to do for whatever reason and is in the form of a bug fix (or less commonly an added feature). I don’t want to ‘onboard’, I just want to use the software and since I spent the time figuring out why it was failing me I ‘pay it forward’ with what I found —- which is usually a diff of my changes. Absolutely no desire to attend committee meetings to discuss the social ramifications of my changes or whatever they get up to these days…