Hi. I am fairly new to zope (and python) and have a question regarding how patches to products are maintained. In particular, is there are preferred protocol for submitting a patch to products where the original author is not available? For example, i applied fixed to a couple of products (KebasData and RoboCage). I tried mailing the RoboCage author but didn't get a reply back (after 2 weeks). Now I can either forget it, post a new Product derived from the old, post a stand-alone patch/diff, or a number of other options. (RoboCage generates random text to fool/disrupt email-scraping robots -- very simple but sufficient. [You know, those web robots that automatically search for email addresses to provide to spammers.] See it in action at <http://abatonix.dyn.dhs.org/about> ). What do zopistas usually do? Is there an approved protocol? Greg