> If I do contact the maintainer before I do any change, that means I'm making a commitment to do that change, which is not something I want to do.
There doesn't have to be a commitment to do anything. You are opening an issue and starting a dialogue. If you then disappear, someone else can come along later and implement/fix it with the benefit of the original discussion.
There doesn't have to be a commitment to do anything. You are opening an issue and starting a dialogue. If you then disappear, someone else can come along later and implement/fix it with the benefit of the original discussion.