Doesn't need to. This is one tool in the toolbag which does nothing but fix one problem. If you have a different problem, pull out a different tool :-)

board or group that manages some form of standards, quality and compliance

Sure, that's what's usually done, but it also has a lot of overhead in bureaucracy, politics, and conformance to poorly designed standards. I'm curious about another approach: what if patches were really easy? What if you could say, "ok, here are the fifteen patches I want in my Arc", and you could just push a button to get them? Now you don't need a board to be filtering patches for you, you can choose which ones you find to be of high quality. Or perhaps, for a particular project, a patch of terrible quality but happens to do something you want for that project :) I'm not sure of all the details yet, but I'm playing around with it.

disincentive for hackers like yourself to contribute valuable code to the community if you end up getting all kinds of requests/baggage from it

Well, my goal is to make it easy for me to share my Arc hacks. I have a whole bunch of hacks to Arc that I've written while doing my own programming, and some of them I've had the time to write up and publish. I'd like to make this easier and faster, so that I can publish more of my hacks without it being any trouble.

And I'd like to become easy for programmers such as yourself to publish your own hacks, such as the patches you made to the JSON library. That way if someone finds your version to be better, they can use yours. Or if they don't like what you did with symbols or something, they can use mine. Or pull out what changes they like from yours.

Now I'm not so worried about requests and stuff. If you see a way to make one of my hacks better, go ahead and publish your changes. No one is forced to use your version, but if it is better, then people can use it.