@sven "upstream first" may not end with getting stuff merged ASAP but may end with getting upstream stuff more ready for your stuff. Or comments how to make your stuff better. Years ago I was at a talk. Speaker was from company disliked in FOSS world. He said: "We sent our driver upstream and because we were disliked many people looked to complain on code we wrote. In the end it was a few times faster and half the size." It is always worth sending patches upstream. Especially when they work.