That said, how does one go about submitting a "fix" for such a widely deployed software? Like, before submitting, I need to make sure it works on Amiga, VMS, Irix... and then all the current platforms. That is, like, a pretty high barrier... who in the world has all these platforms handy for testing? You submit a patch and someone says that it has a problem on Xenix 2.37.4 -- what do you do?
That said, how does one go about submitting a "fix" for such a widely deployed software? Like, before submitting, I need to make sure it works on Amiga, VMS, Irix... and then all the current platforms. That is, like, a pretty high barrier... who in the world has all these platforms handy for testing? You submit a patch and someone says that it has a problem on Xenix 2.37.4 -- what do you do?