In such situations I usually reply with "Sure, sounds like a great feature, make a pull request if you want that." (https://github.com/manmal/hn-android/issues/

In such situations I usually reply with "Sure, sounds like a great feature, make a pull request if you want that." (https://github.com/manmal/hn-android/issues/4 https://github.com/manmal/hn-android/issues/4), or I go and add the feature, of course. I also do quality assurance - if I don't like the way the pull request solves the problem, then it won't even hit the upstream.