I kind of wish that on Github, there was a default "untested" branch bit that defaulted to on.

On the back end, this would aggregate all the commits applied from a head, and allow the maintainer and contributors to know beforehand if their stuff applied cleanly.

Eventually, if the project is abandoned, this untested "uberpatch" would end up being the defacto main branch.

There are probably very many horrible problems with this idea...