From the interview: "For a patch to get accepted, it needs to be maintainable as well as useful [...] Which means that we put a lot of emphasis on quality. So

From the interview: "For a patch to get accepted, it needs to be maintainable as well as useful [...] Which means that we put a lot of emphasis on quality. So, with any code we get sent, we need to make sure that we can still maintain it in 6 months, 1 year, or 2 years… And that’s why we have a lot of features in VLC that some consider completely useless and why we don’t have others that some people think are important. It’s not because we’re stupid, it’s just that the code needs to be clean—if it’s not, you don’t get in." (emphasis mine)