The maintainer has no obligation to merge (or review) the pull request. It's nice that they tell they will not merge it anyway.
From your comment, it looks like a long chain of questions and replies about the PR. It's usually not good. It's difficult to guess the problem, but my recommendation is to assume it will not be merged and forget it.
Perhaps the PR is in a direction the maintainer doesn't like. Perhaps it has to many problems to be solved. Perhaps the maintainer is a moron. It's difficult to know, but my guess is that further contact about this PR will not help.
Perhaps it's because of a noob question that I asked earlier in the pull request
I've made a lot of stupid questions and mistakes. Everyone has made made a lot of stupid questions and mistakes. Don't worry too much.
Furthermore, I managed to figure out the answer myself
Congratulations!
The patch adds a small feature to the software, which is rather trivial (~200 loc, and does not affect other features).
I've just send a PR with +59 -7 (to another project, probably). I've send many that are even shorter. I think that 200 is too much, unless you are a regular contributor. There are a million of tiny details and it's easier to fix all of them when the PR is small. Once you understand the quirks and vision of the maintainer, you can try with longer ones.
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Just forget it.
The maintainer has no obligation to merge (or review) the pull request. It's nice that they tell they will not merge it anyway.
From your comment, it looks like a long chain of questions and replies about the PR. It's usually not good. It's difficult to guess the problem, but my recommendation is to assume it will not be merged and forget it.
Perhaps the PR is in a direction the maintainer doesn't like. Perhaps it has to many problems to be solved. Perhaps the maintainer is a moron. It's difficult to know, but my guess is that further contact about this PR will not help.
I've made a lot of stupid questions and mistakes. Everyone has made made a lot of stupid questions and mistakes. Don't worry too much.
Congratulations!
I've just send a PR with +59 -7 (to another project, probably). I've send many that are even shorter. I think that 200 is too much, unless you are a regular contributor. There are a million of tiny details and it's easier to fix all of them when the PR is small. Once you understand the quirks and vision of the maintainer, you can try with longer ones.