Or you talk with the others first to see what kind of setup everyone thinks is good. I'd find it strange if someone barges into my project with a pull request that fundamentally changes the design of a major component

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otterley 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, a concrete proposal first would be a good idea.

That said, would you look a gift horse in the mouth?

	▲	ericpruitt 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because you become responsible for feeding and taking said care of horse and dealing with any technical debt associated with it. If someone submits code to a project that I maintain that's going to make my life difficult in the future, I'm not going to accept it.