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Warren, sign me up.  Duncan, you should have told me ;)  I'm signed up
now.

Anyone else fancy signing up to either?

(It's a pity we can't just feed reports automatically from the FC/deb
trackers to the upstream.)

- --j.

Warren Togami writes:
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> [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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