Right, so it's much better to scope the change first - responding to the feature request with this. Either it's out of scope or one can talk about what part of

Right, so it's much better to scope the change first - responding to the feature request with this. Either it's out of scope or one can talk about what part of it would be in scope. Lots of projects have a policy of "talk to the devs before making big changes". I would usually indicate negatively on the feature request if I don't believe it's in scope.