> making the feature up This is super hard, often someone will write a mindless issue with a feature request without thinking about it profoundly. Than the de

> making the feature up This is super hard, often someone will write a mindless issue with a feature request without thinking about it profoundly. Than the dev has to sift through the text to understand what is the underlying problem the user is facing, if the proposed solution is actually a good solution to that problem (it often isn't), what is a solution considering long term maintenability, if the feature has synergy with future features or if it solves or is close to solve other already existing issue so the solution scope should be adjusted. The design stage is huge and it's hard to do alone and also hard when other contributors only raise edge cases to try to break a proposed design without validating if the problem the developer extracted is adequate. The scoping and design is often very time consuming and hard to get it right. Usually you end up designing to the scope of available time to solve the issue at hand - time being a rainy Sunday afternoon, or around three and half hours.