Listen, you're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to fork it, tell noone, do a years worth of work in secrecy, release it. palm it off to another FOSS community, then abandon it, then refork it, do another 2 years of work in secrecy and then release it again under a new name. Got it?

You'll never get to play alongside big boys like Apple and Facebook with this 'talk to upstream' attitude of yours. That's just not how the game is played.