Jake, it's a fallacy to believe that just because Domino is proprietary you have no way to submit your fix. As a customer with a support contract, you can submit a bug report and a workaround/fix to go with it. As an IBM PartnerWorld member (which costs you nothing) you can join the Lotus Partner Forum which allows you to submit a "PBR" (possible bug report) which bypasses front-line support and can include your fix, and you can also submit a proposed tech note for the Domino knowledge base.
There are no guarantees, of course. Your tech note may or may not be accepted. Your bug report may or may not be accepted, and if your report is accepted youf fix still may not be if someone on the inside feels that a fix in core code instead of in the template is more appropraiate. And even if your fix is accepted, it will have to go through triage, prioritization, rigorous QA across platforms, yadda yadda, and may or may not make it into a release in our lifetimes. But on open source projects of huge scope, the same thing happens to your contributions if you're not part of the core team.
Jake, it's a fallacy to believe that just because Domino is proprietary you have no way to submit your fix. As a customer with a support contract, you can submit a bug report and a workaround/fix to go with it. As an IBM PartnerWorld member (which costs you nothing) you can join the Lotus Partner Forum which allows you to submit a "PBR" (possible bug report) which bypasses front-line support and can include your fix, and you can also submit a proposed tech note for the Domino knowledge base.
There are no guarantees, of course. Your tech note may or may not be accepted. Your bug report may or may not be accepted, and if your report is accepted youf fix still may not be if someone on the inside feels that a fix in core code instead of in the template is more appropraiate. And even if your fix is accepted, it will have to go through triage, prioritization, rigorous QA across platforms, yadda yadda, and may or may not make it into a release in our lifetimes. But on open source projects of huge scope, the same thing happens to your contributions if you're not part of the core team.