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Comment by sshine | Hacker News Reader

Before I put any effort into an Open Source contribution, I always check the water first:

  - Does the project have stale PRs?
  - Do they react to small fixes? (typos, broken links)

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Do they have thousands of open issues? (I'm sitting myself on a VLC bug which I can't be arsed to report)

I'm pretty sure that's not a typo or a small fix, many people use scientific mode and type negative exponents and it gives this "2.6exp-2 == 0.6", it concerned me, so i tried to fix it, and opened a pr.

I agree with you.

The point I'm making is: Before I put any real effort into a fix, I test if they are receptible to something that was easy for me to make, and should be easy for them to validate, e.g. a typo fix.

Because what you often find out is that people are not interested in being active maintainers.

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