[carussell]

Quick question:

Why did you find yourselves maintaining a fork of Mono (versus fixing upstream)? Was it something like forking, although being problematic, had lower impedance than doing the necessary rituals for getting your changes accepted upstream?

[tedunangst]

You can't exactly tell customers to go check out the latest subversion head and compile it themselves. Changes were pushed upstream, but that doesn't push them to customers. Neither could we ship nightly builds, because who knows what changes get introduced? So we had a fixed release with a pile of patches on top of it.