[oe] RFC: Patch policy

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

> What do you think? Should we try to create a new patch stack which
> follows these rules, in order to lower the ammount of duplicate work? At
> least for us, this would be very interesting.

Sounds good. Although the number of patches we have been able to land
upstream is quite depressing, I still think it's a worthwhile goal, if
just for reducing duplicated work.

:M: