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Except when the patch will be trivial, it's a good idea to notify the maintainers that you are going to work on this issue and discuss possible approaches with them. This avoids duplicated work and will give you an idea of what is considered a good idea by the maintainers before you commit substantial work in the patch itself.
 
Except when the patch will be trivial, it's a good idea to notify the maintainers that you are going to work on this issue and discuss possible approaches with them. This avoids duplicated work and will give you an idea of what is considered a good idea by the maintainers before you commit substantial work in the patch itself.
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May be interesting as well to discuss with the broad community about the usefulness of any proposed new feature. This way the maintainers will feel more motivated to commit their own time so that your work gets accepted.  
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May be interesting as well to discuss with the broad community about the usefulness of any proposed new feature. This way the maintainers will feel more motivated to commit their own time so that your work gets included.
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Plan your work together with the maintainer in such a way that code will be submitted in chunks of reasonable size, a good rule of thumb is in patches of below 2000 lines.
    
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