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Open-Source Maintainer Declines Feature, User Ships Fix Instead
A user spent four days designing a feature for safari-mcp, an MCP server for AI agents controlling Safari. The maintainer discovered three of five asks already existed, found a real bug, and declined the rest. The user then shipped his own package, turning the request into a case study in where concerns live.
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The story highlights how open-source maintainers can turn feature requests into documentation and bug fixes, but the real win is the user's self-sufficiency.
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A user spent four days designing a feature for my project. The right answer was zero lines of code. →
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