I think the question of whether a patch is applied to the repo or kept as an optional patch
should be: does it benefit everyone without breaking anything, fixes a bug, or enhances security?
I use
9p.io as a reference for my setup. I appreciate that David has been judicious with the
application of patches to the mainline.
Quoth David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>:
> Lufia did a lot of interesting stuff on APE. I've not merged
> them yet because I wasn't sure how it fits with changes other
> people have done on APE.
Sure -- but some of them recently turned 2 years old,
which I'd personally find rather discouraging.
This is why I was suggesting that echoline sort out
the way to get changes committed in advance, and if
the people along that way wanted them -- otherwise,
there seems a good chance that the changes would get
stuck in limbo.