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I hate bastard software developers. When someone sends me a patch for something they actually use, I'll either add it or I'll come up with a better way of doing things, or at worst suggest they try another approach in the patch. I can't understand why someone, after you've gone to the trouble of coming up with a patch for their software that doesn't break anything, is in the right format, doesn't duplicate functionality, and is generally a good patch... why someone will then turn around and say "I don't need that feature, so I won't consider putting it in". Not, "that will break a feature I use" or "it's too much work" or "I don't understand it" or "tell me more", but "I don't need it, so it's not going in, period". It's not just me either. I've gone hunting patches for other packages and had other people tell the same tale. I'm going to have to re-apply a patch someone did for an old version of Postfix later this week because RBL tagging apparently offended Weitse. And it's a straightforward patch, doesn't hardly change anything, and doesn't hurt anything. And he's not even one of the hard-to-get-along-with ones. We all know the poster-boy there...
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