"Staying close to upstream"

[Kevin Kofler]

Chris Tyler wrote:
> If you (or whoever is interested) can't get those patches through the
> upstream review process for technical reasons, then perhaps they're ugly
> patches. If you can't get them through because of lack of
> time/energy/motivation, then the future maintenance of those patches is
> in question. Either way, it strengthens our Firefox maintainers'
> position that those patches shouldn't be accepted.

You forget the sociopolitical aspect: in many upstreams (and AFAICS Mozilla 
is one of those), you can only get your stuff merged if you know the right 
people. :-(

        Kevin Kofler