Thanks to Ted for replying. I will save the mail I started in the drafts folder until I've calmed down again.
Benjamin Reed: > deprioritizing them doesn't help because the patches themselves bit > rot. shortly they will not apply and then they will be worthless. the > poor contributor would then be left with the task of maintaining a > patch that would never commit. You should really give GIT a try. I've kept a pipeline of half a douzend patches filled and current over the last two months while drinking my morning coffee. Likewise have I updated my development branch of over a douzend commits every morning against the new ZK trunk. Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro