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Preparation is key. Is the patch a minimal change set, keeping to the style of the original? Are you clear about the advantages? Can you say that you've been running it a while and tested it well?

If you are getting started bugfix patches are a better bet than feature patches, they require less thinking on the part of the maintainer.