> telling maintainers how to act will not fix anything.

I'm just saying its ok to ignore overly enthusiastic contributors and tell them to just fork your project.

I think this does help, actually. In my early days of maintaining opensource software I felt burdened by open PRs - like I was letting someone down by ignoring their work. "Its ok, let them do whatever in their own fork" is advice I wish someone had given me.

  > I'm just saying its ok to ignore overly enthusiastic contributors and tell them to just fork your project.