Personally, I much prefer "patches are welcome". It puts the ownership back on that person who asked for XYZ feature to do it. If that person is actually motiv

Personally, I much prefer "patches are welcome". It puts the ownership back on that person who asked for XYZ feature to do it. If that person is actually motivated enough to write a patch (which I have had!), I welcome reviewing it, because it empowers that person to feel like they can contribute to my project (and hopefully other projects too!), and makes others feel like they can contribute to my project as well.