Interesting perspective. I’m actually on the other side, wanting to get started contributing to open source by making a few bug fixes to small single author projects I use, but its essentially one persons baby so I don’t want to annoy them, but also forking to make a tiny change seems like stealing credit when they wrote 99% of the code. One the other hand big projects are complicated and hard to wrap my head around. If you had any thoughts about how to approach a single maintainer respectfully that would be very helpful.