Thought about this for a while and curious to get others opinions. Do you have your own forks of taps which available on the Hub? If so, why have you forked it? I can think of a couple reasons that I have encountered: • Special casing behaviour for a particular situation (I have a highly modified fork of tap-spreadsheets-anywhere for custom csv feed) • Preventing unwanted changes to your meltano repo (i.e. if the tap owner pushes a change (and you are building docker images with

meltano install

regularly). • Needing some new

singer-sdk

functionality and tap is pinned to an older version for compatibility.

I’ve had to fork all of the plugins that I use, often for special cases, but also for: • Bug fixes, when the plugin owner hasn’t acted quickly on a bug fix PR that I’ve submitted • Additional options, when I’m not sure that the plugin owner will want to adopt the option or will act quickly on a PR

I'd link these docs for suggestions too 😄 https://hub.meltano.com/tap-target-maintenance