> We don't want to pay someone to write a feature we don't agree we need
We're talking about open source here, and saying "no" to unpaid, external contributors.
The way I approach it as an external contributor is that if the project is useful to me, I fork it, make my changes, and then open a PR in case the maintainers want to adopt them upstream. They don't have to, it's fine. But I don't have to ask for their opinion in an issue because I will just do what I want in my fork anyway.
We're talking about open source here, and saying "no" to unpaid, external contributors.
The way I approach it as an external contributor is that if the project is useful to me, I fork it, make my changes, and then open a PR in case the maintainers want to adopt them upstream. They don't have to, it's fine. But I don't have to ask for their opinion in an issue because I will just do what I want in my fork anyway.