only maintain a separate codebase if the feature is accepted, that way there is a finite timeline on having to be in the build business. As someone who maintai

only maintain a separate codebase if the feature is accepted, that way there is a finite timeline on having to be in the build business. As someone who maintained a forked openstack distribution for 5 years as a company selling openstack tooling... we wasted significant time tracking down integration bugs rather than working with the community to integrate our changes upstream