> I saw patches submitted and rejected on the grounds that the project leadership had no interest in supporting non-systemd What do you mean with project leade

> I saw patches submitted and rejected on the grounds that the project leadership had no interest in supporting non-systemd What do you mean with project leadership. If someone submits a patch, the maintainer(s) of the git module can obviously reject it if they don't want to maintain it. Unless they're persuaded because it's better for the project as a whole. However, you talk about "project leadership". That doesn't really exist. There's loads of maintainers. There's a GNOME foundation, which mostly handles admin stuff, sysadmin stuff, etc. There's a release team. They ensure the various maintainers make releases, plus verify stuff actually builds. If you help out in GNOME you're just a person in a big group of people. There's not really any "leadership", just loads of people who often agree, sometimes disagree, etc.