The answer? Just maintain the project as the hobby it started as. Open source is provided without warranty and users are more than free to use the provided binaries for their convenience as-is or learn to compile to contribute fixes.
It's killed more useful projects than it's ever benefitted.
You then end up with that drive-by pull requester spitting venom everywhere on twitter and other forums about how hostile the project is
Depends on what you mean by "large changes". I've done drive-bys of changes, but they were, in my opinion, small changes.
(I think I'm in the credits for Lucaschess somewhere because of a 10-line change).
- Line operations (sort, remove blank lines, etc)
- Find/replace that can use either normal, {\n, \r, etc}, or regex
- Right-click to highlight a word in one colour, and then another word in another ...
One of my favourite Windows programs, along with Ditto (clipboard manager)