Actually it is as bad as it sounds. Although git makes it easier to merge with mainline, in the end it still requires an active maintainer who manually merges a

Actually it is as bad as it sounds. Although git makes it easier to merge with mainline, in the end it still requires an active maintainer who manually merges and tests stuff once in a while. Maintaining a fork requires one's constant attention and diverts one from doing other - maybe more useful - things.