On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 12:40:41PM +0100, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > I'm unhappy about leaving feature requests open when they have no real hope > of getting attention. Telling people "patches welcome" isn't nice, but > ignoring them for a year is IMO worse rather than better. That's my two > cents, though, what do you others think?
If a feature request is obviously unrealistic for the foreseesable future because none of the developers has time, inclination, or the specific experitise to write the code then, "patches welcome", is at least being honest about it. Doing so might even encourage somebody external to the project to take it on, rather than just waiting indefinitely for it to happen.
