With almost any other project, I can take the source code, make some change, and then propose that the upstream project incorporates my change. If the upstream

With almost any other project, I can take the source code, make some change, and then propose that the upstream project incorporates my change. If the upstream project thinks my code is good, they will incorporate it as-is. With SQLite, that's just not a process. There is no process whereby code written by anyone other than the SQLite maintainers enters the git repository.