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>When in doubt talk about it with them first before submitting anything Normally you'd do that before even working on the patch, and you can see what kind of r

>When in doubt talk about it with them first before submitting anything Normally you'd do that before even working on the patch, and you can see what kind of response that's gotten. I've got a patched version that suites my needs, as I say. That being said I'm sure raising a few thousand dollars for that feature wouldn't have been hard.

cycloptic 6y ago
>you can see what kind of response that's gotten I don't think we have. Like I said, I have not seen any serious offers to work on a non-intrusive patch for this, to put up the time and/or money and to maintain it for the number of years required. That's what you want to look for. And if you want to bring it upstream, you have to sell it to them in a way that shows it will not increase their maintenance burden or break the currently in-place designs. (This is not a GNOME specific thing, this is how basically every open source project operates. You generally can't just dump code on upstream and expect it to go well) If you want to do fundraising, some trusted person has to put in the time to do it and to manage the money.