SQLite is open-source but not open-contribution – they don't accept contributions of that sort. They follow "cathedral" style development and invented a whole alternative to git for that purpose https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/43c3d95a/www/fossil-v-git.wi...
> In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, the project does not accept patches. If you would like to suggest a change and you include a patch as a proof-of-concept, that would be great. However, please do not be offended if we rewrite your patch from scratch.
As other commenters have already pointed out, SQLite does not take outside contributions.
We already have a fork, called libSQL. However, the goals of Limbo are far more ambitious and we cannot rewrite some parts step by step. We want to have DST ( Deterministic Simulation Testing), a testing methodology pioneered by Foundation DB and TigerBeetle. It is not easy to do that in an existing codebase
what do you mean with "on the main branch"? i doubt that migrating from c makes sense for their constraints and expertise, you would not want someone to come into your house and change your furniture.
forking is the right political and technical approach for this team.
also rust does not support a lot of sqlite target platforms
As the article mentioned, a complete rewrite will not be as stable as the original.