Fedora Legacy and Fedora's cvs

[Rob Myers <rob myers gtri gatech edu>]

fedora legacy is working on updated zlib patches.  the approach that has
been submitted is different from the approach taken in fedora's FC-1
cvs.

you can compare them:
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2043
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/zlib/FC-1/zlib.spec?rev=1.11&view=markup

what is the larger picture?  i advocate the convergence of the
fedora-legacy releases with the FC-1 cvs tree.  how can we achieve
that?  would redhat be willing to grant fedora legacy members commit
access to the EOL'd trees?  is there another way?

comments, references, suggestions and insights welcome.

rob.