This is a timely discussion for me. I've been dealing with several open source packages that aren't moving nearly as fast I need to get work done. I fork them, creating feature branches to upstream and merge them into a vendored dev branch I can use myself. But when I can push a dozen PRs a day and the maintainers barely merge a few a month, the math does not add up. I bet many AI-powered developers are facing this problem. I tested the waters with some PRs and regretfully came to the conclusion that I have to work on my fork.

Also, this MkDocs maintainer sounds crazy. Nobody is discouraging women from contributing.

probably most of your prs shouldn't land on mainline anyway. are they fixes? good. Feature? write a plug-in. Does it not support a plug-in? Well, you made a bad choice since the beginning. mkdocs has no parallization and brings nothing to the table compared to sphinx since its inception.