This project is a fork from the original python-patch project. As any other project, bugs are common during the development process, the combination of issues + pull requests are able to keep the constant improvement of a project. However, both community and author need to be aligned. When users, developers, the community, needs a fix which are important for their projects, but there is no answer from the author, or the time for response is not enough, then the most plausible way is forking and continuing a parallel development.