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There's another consequence to consider as well: even if a PR does materialize externally, do you want to sign up to maintain it in your codebase?

• mytherin 4y ago
  Exactly. Pull requests are not a golden ticket here - they still take (a lot of) time to review and maintain. In my experience pull requests, particularly for (larger) features, can be net negative contributions. If the pull request is done poorly they can easily take more time to review, fix and maintain than it would have taken the maintainer to implement the feature in the first place.
  • ohwellhere 4y ago
    That also describes my day job.
  • YetAnotherNick 4y ago
    If not, the maintainer could say "feel free to fork it".