with the last project that i had some fixes for, i forked the project, fixed the issues so they would work for me, and then opened issue reports on the upstream

with the last project that i had some fixes for, i forked the project, fixed the issues so they would work for me, and then opened issue reports on the upstream repo, sharing the problem, and how i fixed it with links to the commits, in order to open a discussion to find out if that is the right fix for the problem i found. i didn't want to submit a PR as long as i wasn't confident that this was an appropriate fix. on the other hand, in that project, just submitting a PR might have gotten me more feedback (i didn't receive any responses to my issues) the main point though is that i fix problems for my own needs, so why should i ask you before doing so? but then i also do not have any expectations that my fix is accepted. if it isn't, then i'll just keep running my own fork.