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. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos