rain 🌦️If you're an open source maintainer, nothing makes new people happier than you taking their work, updating it with whatever changes you want to see happen, and landing it yourself. It's a much better experience than going back and forth with minor nits. (And give them credit for it!)
L. David Baron@rain I think there can often be value in the back-and-forth as a teaching tool, though I think good maintainers can also sometimes tell when it's not desirable.
On the flip side, it's not great when the maintainer's edits make the patch completely wrong. I did once have a maintainer take a small patch I wrote, replace it with a completely different small patch that was incorrect, and land it with my name attached. (I think that may have been my only contribution to libX11.)