[thatwasunusual]

> There is an adoption process [...]

This is good, but to me it's too tedious. I can't wait a month for something to happen. The solution so far has been to fire up a Pinto server and serve "home-made-patched" versions of modules, which only benefits myself, not the community.

> [...] you can also often get somewhere by just asking the current maintainer nicely by email.

What could be more intrusive than creating a pull request or git issue? An email.