official dev team position regarding multiple times requested feature (global sieve)

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On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Roughly:
>
> a) nobody else wants to do it.
> b) if you write a patch (or get someone to) and it doesn't break other
>    stuff or cause massive maintenance headaches or backwards compatibility
>    problems, we'll include it.
> c) you can do whatever you want with your own copy of course.
>
> Bron ( or as they say in the parlance: patches welcome )

Hi,
Does this patch qualify for b) ?
http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/cyrus-devel/2006-December/000227.html