Add fixes from maintained fork

[matthewhegarty]

Now that the base upstream repo is read-only there is a maintained fork here.

The fork has some python patches which are not yet ported to this repo.

• Do you want me to add these patches?
• Do we need to change the base upstream repo?

[amyreese]

Yes, would be happy to review PRs for updating scripts/docs and porting upstream patches. 🙂