It is an occasion of taking advantage of using git :) You can now clone the Trinity git repository in a public location (for example: gitorious, github, a server you have access on, etc.) and git won't discriminate your repo against Tim's one. So you can have your own git repo you update regularly from Tim's one, apply you own patches to it, and once the patches are applied, you can ask Tim to import your patches from your repo to his.
I don't know whether I did not explain myself well or whether your response is intended to be tongue-in-cheek. :)
I'm already patching from my own local GIT repository. I also have submitted many patches upstream. I could do so for a long time, but that does not do anything to the main project GIT repository because I do not have commit access.
Let me rephrase: if Tim became unavailable for a long period or forever, do we have a plan in place to continue the project or does Trinity fizzle away without Tim?
Darrell