I've locally fixed issues that I discovered, and then submitted the patches back. In every case, those patches have been rejected because they weren't formatte

I've locally fixed issues that I discovered, and then submitted the patches back. In every case, those patches have been rejected because they weren't formatted correctly, or the project lead disagreed with my choice of design, or the team didn't like my haircut, or whatever. After a certain point, one just stops bothering.