The same old arguments...

Posted Dec 8, 2025 18:18 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: The same old arguments... by moltonel
Parent article: Eventual Rust in CPython

> Yes, though even "patches welcome" is not free: it costs reviewer time, ongoing maintenance, implicit commitment, etc. Every project is different: some don't accept patches, some will spend a lot of resources to help a single user.

Agreed. One project I'm on is a "patches welcome" project for platforms we don't actively support (including WSL, MinGW, Cygwin, FreeBSD, etc.). We will review patches (as time affords), but we cannot guarantee that things won't break without contributed CI resources (and even then, they'll usually be "notification" as we don't have control over the machine(s) and cannot block paying customers on such open-ended things as "CI machine over there is down").