Patching & Forking

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Last Reviewed:2014-12-24
FIXME

- locally patch 3rd-part projects to deal with unfixed bugs
   - old style pkg_resources "patch releases":  1.3-fork1
   - PEP440's local identifiers: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#local-version-identifiers
- fork and publish when you need to publish a project that depends on the fork
   (DONT use dependency links)