The dialog between the author of this message the responses on the mailing list add some clarity. There's nothing inherently wrong with providing cleanup fixes

The dialog between the author of this message the responses on the mailing list add some clarity. There's nothing inherently wrong with providing cleanup fixes to this kind of project, but submitting those as individual merge requests instead of one grouped patch is just serving to increment the developer's "number of patches submitted" KPI at the expense of the time spent by maintainers reviewing every individual patch.