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I did the attached patch some time back...
:-D IMHO we increasingly need a repository for user-contributed branches and some sort of process for testing them and perhaps moving them to the main distribution. I imagine that patches like this could be added in the form of branches and tested by those willing to risk a crash or two. Once a patch would turn out to be useful, stable and coherent with the rest according to some group of users somebody like Ge or Spencer could review it and perhaps move it in. That way there is less risk of crashing stuff making it in and we minimise putting extra pressure on the dev-time of the devs, while still making use of the resources that we have as a community. IMHO we currently could use this kind of contribution and we have the capacity to generate them, but no real way of joining those. That's a waste, I feel. I know that particularly Spencer sees benefits in a centralised process (and I agree those are there!) but I think that with something like the above we could get a lot of the benefits of a distributed one yet still maintain centralised oversight. Yours, Kas.