If your commit message sucks, I'm not going to accept your pull
request. I've explained very politely dozens of times that my general
guidelines are absolute rules on my own repositories, so I may
lack the energy to explain it to you yet another time. And please, if I ask
you to change something, git commit --amend and git push -f.
If a feature idea is nontrivial, you should probably open an issue to discuss it before attempting a pull request. One of the biggest challenges in maintaining rails.vim has been beating back the bloat, so do not assume that your idea will make the cut. And if I like your idea, I'm generally amenable to just knocking it out myself, rather than making you familiarize yourself with a 4 thousand line code base.