>>13
or some academy project, not for users, like us
My experience is quite opposite. I submitted three patches to one project lead by couple of university professors and they all were accepted. They were tweaked a little, but accepted nonetheless. Also the responsed really fast.
Also I submitted patches to software written by regular joes and they were ignored.
>>5
mplayer
True story: after seeing mplayer's main() function I had nightmares. Its main() funciton consists of ~3000 LOC if I remember correctly.