Thanks, this was very useful. For an Open Source project, WONTFIX is particularily disheartening, but also annoying to the next user wanting to report the same

Thanks, this was very useful. For an Open Source project, WONTFIX is particularily disheartening, but also annoying to the next user wanting to report the same bug and not finding it in the list of open bugs. In such cases, it would be better to set the level PATCHESWELCOME to control expectation. I guess this corresponds to your "Priority 3", but is more explicit about it.