alt Hacker News> TBH I never contributed to Open Source because of the effort needed to bring my PR from "works on my machine" to "compliant with the rest of codebase". Especially that I only want to implement one small thing.
That's a good thing; OSS projects don't want drive-by contributors, they want a community. A small bit of friction is a good thing.
After all, we can see what happens with frictionless contributions.
I some times will open a PR even if i know it will get closed, simply by because if its a bugfix or feature i want, someone else might do so too, and i have many times adopted code from PR's that were never adopted by mainstream or closed.
By pushing that PR, i might be annoying a grouchy maintainer, but at the same time helping tens or hundreds of other users of the software.
Imho the beauty of open source is as long as you're adhering to the licenses, you can do whatever the heck you want =)