Gunicorn requires monkey patching to be performed before running any code that may rely on it. Most of the gunicorn entry point files are currently monkey patched at the top. There are two files which are not:

gunicorn_local.py - Only used for local development
gunicorn_verbs.py - Used for the verbs application

The purpose of this story is to modify those two files to be consistent with the other gunicorn entry points. There should be no noticeable change or regression caused by this.

From the gunicorn documentation:

Warning

Patching too late can lead to unreliable behaviour (for example, some modules may still use blocking sockets) or even errors.