AquaWeasel

Hello, I'm a computer enthusiast who recently started coding as a hobby.

Sometime mid 2024, I opened my first pull request to a popular open source project that I use daily. The patch adds a small feature to the software, which is rather trivial (~200 loc, and does not affect other features).

At first, the project maintainer actively reviewed my patch. But sometime later, he suddenly stopped responding to that pull request. After more than a month of inactivity, I posted a polite reminder, but to no avail. Two months passed, and there's still no reply.

I'm sure he was not being too busy to work on the project, since he was actively reviewing other pull request all the time.

Perhaps it's because of a noob question that I asked earlier in the pull request, which got him annoyed and blocked my GitHub account. But that also does not make sense, since he does reply my other comments under the pull request. Furthermore, I managed to figure out the answer myself and apologized, and that should not be a problem anymore.

Sometimes I even had nightmares about this. Once I dreamed about receiving an anonymous hate mail accusing me for wasting other developer's precious time.

I really wish to forget about the pull request, and perhaps it's better to close it myself. But I can't.

It's not that the patch itself is very important (I can apply the patch locally whenever the software releases a new version), but that I really want to know why my patch suddenly gets neglected.

Any suggestions what I should do?