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Re:Molly for Android: A fork of Signal for Android with pass... by lucideer on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:42AM (#25747490)
As far as I've seen, Signal don't really accept outside contributions. I'm not sure if it's policy, or just a culture thing.

They may have accepted some in the past, but I've never seen it, and I've seen a lot of PRs closed unmerged.

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Re:Molly for Android: A fork of Signal for Android with pass... by asddubs on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:49AM (#25749496)
checked the last 10 closed pull requests

-1 closed by the author realizing it had already been done

-2 closed saying they were going to fix it differently

-1 closed saying they took some code from the commit and fixed part of it differently

-6 merged

seems quite reasonable to me (albeit this is only from the newest 10 closed pr obviously)

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Re:Molly for Android: A fork of Signal for Android with pass... by lucideer on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:41AM (#25823529)
Your 2nd & 3rd examples I've seen a fair bit of, but I've mostly seen them closed due to the feature not lining up with Signal devs' intent.

Glad to hear this seems to be changing; 6/10 is pretty good.

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