- We are interested in merging your changes upstream, if they
- are for a big, and well-known distribution. Unfortunately we
- don't have the time and resources to maintain
- distribution-specific patches for all distributions on the
- planet, hence please do not send us patches that adds systemd
- support to non-mainstream or niche distributions.
+ We do generally no longer accept distribution-specific
+ patches to systemd upstream. If you have to make changes to
+ systemd's source code to make it work on your distribution:
+ unless your code is generic enough to be generally useful, we
+ are unlikely to merge it. Please always consider adopting the
+ upstream defaults. If that is not possible, please maintain
+ the relevant patches downstream.