The Pitfalls of 'Fork Yourself' in FOSS

Whether it's a feature suggestion or a pull request optimizing some code path you are very likely to see response similar to "nah, thanks, it's fine as is". This is often followed by "if you don't like it you are free to create a fork". And don't get me wrong, community contributions are liabilities the main maintainers team will have to keep supporting in the future. However, rejecting input…