bug fixes/patches and developer round-trip time

["Göran Uddeborg" <goeran uddeborg se>]

Pekka Savola writes:
> IMHO, in cases I've seen this, most of the time it has taken entirely too
> long (even many weeks or months, even for trivial fixes).

Months?  That's nothing! :-)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41991

(A local Red Hat problem, one of the patches to the upstream tar
archive is broken.  Bug report submitted 2001-05-23, patch provided
2001-06-13.  Now it's 2003-08-19 ...)

What is the oldest case with complete patch available?