+
+>> Hi, I can understand your frustration with having outstanding patches for
+>> review/merge. You aren't alone. It's clear that the IkiWiki maintainers are
+>> overloaded at the moment. IkiWiki maintainers, is there anything that we can
+>> do to help?
+>>
+>> In my case I started [collecting together stuff that I was requesting be merged](https://github.com/jmtd/ikiwiki/compare/3.20200202.3...jmtd:opinionated?expand=1)
+>> into IkiWiki, by myself and others, in a branch that I use for the *Opinionated
+>> Ikiwiki* [[container|containers]].
+>>
+>> The *Opinionated IkiWiki* container was not intended to be a "clearing house"
+>> for patches, as such, but it could potentially be a way for pending stuff to
+>> get some exposure, which might increase the overburdened maintainers confidence
+>> in the patches. (Would it)? Supposing that anyone is using the container of
+>> course.
+>>
+>> I've personally not used the OSM plugin at all, but I took a quick look after
+>> you posted the above message. It looks cool! I would probably accept a PR
+>> against the "opinionated" branch in my fork, above, if that was of any interest.
+>>
+>> -- *[[Jon]], 2021-08-18*