On Thu, November 26, 2015 12:30, John R Pierce wrote:
>
> how open is RH to bug fix submissions from non-customers?
>
> I got the impression most of their bug fixes were done internally by
> employees, a large part of which consists of backporting fixes from
> upstream FOSS projects.
>
This is my experience as well. The only thing that RedHat has ever
done with my bug reports is point me to the upstream projects to have
it fixed/altered/added there. They will however, occasionally accept
some nudges about updating software that the upstream project has
already released.
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