"I am not planning to implement this, but it sounds like a good idea, feel free to send a pull request" additionally apply label "PR welcome" and/or close issu

"I am not planning to implement this, but it sounds like a good idea, feel free to send a pull request" additionally apply label "PR welcome" and/or close issue ------------ "This feature is out of scope and not planned" additionally close issue and optionally apply label "declined" Ideally, you can also drop link to some documented project vision. ------------ Other comments have good hints how you can try explaining things. ------------ Note that on GitHub and any decent platform you can lock discussions and block people. Feel free to use this, you are not hired by them.