My experience with many patches was that they just sit some place ignored for years until they cannot be merged anymore. Not even rejected, just silence. So let

My experience with many patches was that they just sit some place ignored for years until they cannot be merged anymore. Not even rejected, just silence. So let's not claim that the project full timers were some kind of all-knowing all-powerful benevolent gods. They are humans too and nothing better than the casual contributors, so only when there's a match it works.