[linux-audio-user] Jack-Rack / FreeWheeling patch posting etiquette

Hi everyone, I'm getting ready to release Freewheeling 0.5pre3, where the focus has been interoperability with other linux audio apps. As part of the release I intend to include some scripts for loading FreeWheeling along with other RT apps like Jack-Rack and Hexter. My intent is to show how Jack apps can be loaded and configured automatically from the command line (hopefully LASH will become the standard for this, but we are here now). I'd like to include with my release of FreeWheeling a patch to jack-rack 1.4.3 which adds a simple feature to load a .rack file from the command line. My scripts make use of this feature to preload FX racks for FreeWheeling. Any ideas on the etiquette on including a patch in my source distribution? Is the author of Jack-Rack awake on this list? The patch would be separate from the make branch, in a scripts/ folder. Thanks, Mercury