Are you pushing these downstream to the Fedora group? And are you on the package CC list for the Fedora Bugzilla?
This hit the SpamAssassin Developer list yesterday:
------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:06 PM -1000 From: Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com> To: spamassassin-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: SA Devel for Fedora Core
Any spamassassin developers interested in being automatically added to all new spamassassin bugs that are reported for Fedora Core at bugzilla.redhat.com? Developers from other upstream projects like gaim have become involved with FC in this way. It has proven to be a win for both the upstream and downstream projects, as the developers often KNOW the majority of problems instantly, alert us to existing patches for the package, or even simply close stupid user reports. Otherwise they have the option of removing themselves from the CC if they simply are not interested. [1]
Any volunteers, developers or even power-users, can help as liasons to the Fedora Project. Your software is important to our distribution, so fostering communication with upstream development and making sure patches go both ways is important.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123710 This is a problem tracker for spamassassin 3.0's snapshots in FC rawhide that should be solved before the release of FC3. FC3 development will expose spamassassin 3.0 snapshots and later pre-releases to thousands of additional testers, with the goal of improving the quality of both SA 3.0 and FC3.
Warren Togami wtogami@redhat.com
[1] Three upstream gaim developers are automatically added to all FC gaim bugs. As the result of the gaim partnership, several bugs were quickly killed in upstream CVS, and the FC2 package has been polished, exposing CVS fixes to wide user testing before the next upstream release. (This has even been instrumental in preventing one regression from reaching gaim-0.78, after Gentoo stole a Fedora CVS backport and they noticed an extremely subtle breakage.) As the result of this successful partnership, there are current ZERO open FC gaim bugs.
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