Do you want your favorite “vital” patch rolled into 5.3?
This thread has become a tangle. To be actionable, Nick needs a list of PRs to inspect and approve/reject. It is too much for any 1 person to do both submissions and approvals.
I noticed one here that pointed to a Feature Request which had a reply from him with a code snippet. But after all the ensuing discussion, no one took ownership to handhold converting the snippet into a commit and then a pull request. So that item will die in a stalled process.
If you want to see your special interests rolled into Gramps, either help get it to the Pull Request stage or partner with a developer.