Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> The moral of my story is to prevent issues languishing downstream >> indefinitely, to avoid the kind of comment "this bug has been around >> forever, why is it still a problem and not fixed?", which does no one any >> good, esp when upstreams aren't made aware of the issues (which, by all >> accounts so far, seems to be what happened here in this particular >> dovecot/kmail case). > You are going to find this difficult to believe, > but I did not actually understand your reference to "upstream" > in response to my query (I was the OP). Thanks for the whack with the reality cluestick. My apologies, hopefully reading the following will help describe fedora's ideals and definitions here in more detail, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects -- Rex