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    9 months ago

    ‘surely you get …’ ---- not necessarily; contributions that satisfy feature requests are unlikely to be welcomed with open arms if they don’t already fit the core maintainers’ overall strategy. Some projects are very flexible about this; but Gnome is notoriously not.

    … and even if the commissioned feature patch remains private, it might break on the next update, which would be a waste.