You can't succeed as an open source project if you're not committed to engaging with the outside developers sending you patches, and giving them no meaningful f

You can't succeed as an open source project if you're not committed to engaging with the outside developers sending you patches, and giving them no meaningful feedback on why the ticket for the patch is zombie-open for years. You call it 4D Chess, I call it mismanagement. Google, just happens, to be bankrolling the mismanagement by buying their monopoly in the search world.