And there's the thing: not all patches are the same. It's not even so much the size of the patch, but rather how much it gets into the design, I think. If some

And there's the thing: not all patches are the same. It's not even so much the size of the patch, but rather how much it gets into the design, I think. If someone sends a largish bugfix patch that doesn't touch design then that seems ok to me. Even if you don't like the actual patch, you'll probably do your own similar (but correct) patch. But sending even a smallish patch that messes with design would have been better with discussion first. Even small tweaks to architecture, API/ABI, UX, etc. need careful consideration.