Comment 4 for bug 1678420

David, thanks for the patch. I am uploading to zesty now for you. I am unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors. Feel free to resubscribe if you have something else that needs sponsoring.

Usually, GNOME developers prefer patches to be in git format-patch format with the GNOME bug number in the long description part of the commit message. That way the patch can be directly applied to their git branch.

There is a git-bz tool that most GNOME developers use that might be helpful:
http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/git-bz/tree/git-bz