Sometimes people just can’t work out how to send me patches at all. Or they can think of several ways, and aren’t sure which is best. So one purpose of this article is to be a public statement of my own preferences, which I can link to when people ask that question.

But it’s also a bit of a musing about why I don’t use a ‘forge’ style system like Gitlab or Github. People sometimes ask me that too – “why don’t you do what everyone else does?” or words to that effect.