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There are a few open source projects by the name and we were aware of https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork which is archived. Didn't know of this though.

It's a common noun which works really well for patch-based offerings I guess, and we chose it because we built a 'framework to patch code'. But we'll think more about this - thanks for bringing it up.

Patchwork is used by the Linux kernel: https://patchwork.kernel.org/

When I saw your submission title I thought it was that Patchwork.

There's also https://github.com/fabric/patchwork

And an R library: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/patchwork/index.html

The opensource ecosystem is large enough now compared to previous decades that name collisions are very likely to happen given that they're always named in English.