As maintainer always try to respond in a timely matter. Timely could be weeks (but rather not), it should be no big deal. But do respond! Even if you don't want it, thank the contributor for their effort.
As a contributor, don't expect your input be accepted in a timely matter, or at all. You are not entitled.
That's works both ways.
As maintainer always try to respond in a timely matter. Timely could be weeks (but rather not), it should be no big deal. But do respond! Even if you don't want it, thank the contributor for their effort.
As a contributor, don't expect your input be accepted in a timely matter, or at all. You are not entitled.
Just to explicitly clarify on the George Carlin skit.
As a maintainer, your users are thy nookie. As a user, your maintainers are thy nookie.
Should be rather obvious, don't kill your users, don't kill your maintainers.
Forking a project is a way to kill. Try first to extend it.
This is mostly for the users. (e.g. if the maintainer uses spaces, you use spaces.)
But also for a maintainer. If a user wants to add support for FreeDOS or Haiku, invite them to maintain it.