K. To start with, it's been a common phrase in open source since before "open source" was invented and fairly self-explanatory; it means what it means on its face. Even if that weren't the case and someone were just encountering it for the first time in 2024, a 2-second attempt to get acquainted will not leave anyone wondering.
There are 200 results for "patches welcome" on HN:
The top results on Google for the phrase "patches welcome", most being posts written around the 4-, 5-, 6-year mark after the post I linked to, are all based on the same premise: "patches welcome" is (a) common, and (b) not what anyone wants to hear.
But I'm also missing some context here; my "Huh?" was rather more directed at the part of the remark that says "[...] for me to agree or disagree with it".
> The phrase "patches welcome" has come not to be.
Which I am already missing context for to make sense out of. Where was this phrase used, by who?
I get a general idea of what it is about and what the intention is but it isn't all that clear as I am missing the surrounding context.