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> That's what you're passive-aggressively asking for.

I don't know if you're wording it way because you're doing a bit or you didn't look at my username?

> you know what is a PR

This part doesn't make sense to me.

> and what is a demand for a free work

And this is not a demand for free work.

If I comment on a project that I'm going to keep using an existing product because it has this big entrenched feature base, that's the exact opposite of being demanding and binding myself to a project. It's an acceptance of the status quo. It gives some feedback as to what people find important, but it's not a request to implement half of google docs, and it doesn't make sense to try to invert it into an invitation to submit a PR that implements half of google docs.



> > you know what is a PR

> This part doesn't make sense to me.

A proper PR (pull request on GitHub, not public relations, just to be clear) contains a working implementation of some feature or a bugfix. Ideally it also follows the style of the said project, is well tested etc.

If somebody opens a "PR" with no source code and the whole body of PR is, for example, "Replace your project with google docs" or even "s/.*/docs.google.com/", that's not a PR, that's wasting project maintainer's time.

If somebody opens a PR that says "Hey could you add feature X?" that's also not a PR. At best that's a feature request.




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