[kde-freebsd] Merging Qt patches upstream?

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

2009/8/24 David Johnson <david at usermode.org>:
>> I remember some time ago (before Qt's source was available over
>> gitorious) that people here were talking about some bad Qt behaviour
>> related to iconv and how it wouldn't be effective to try to talk to
>> the Trolls as they didn't seem to care about FreeBSD, so I was
>> wondering if things have changed and people have already tried to get
>> closer to upstream :)
>
> If there's a patch, and it doesn't break other systems, then they'll
> probably accept it. The problem we had earlier (and still have) is that
> Nokia doesn't support FreeBSD any longer. It's in "community support"
> status, meaning that the community has to provide the support.

In this case, it would be nice if the person who maintains the FreeBSD
patches (such as the ones in qt4-corelib I mentioned before) created
merge requests via gitorious.

Who is the maintainer of those patches? Has it been tried before?