[fedora-arm] New Packages and Policy Questions

I have a question on policies of how and whether Fedora-ARM patches are rolled back into rawhide. The reason I ask is because I see overlap between the required ARM specific patches between F11 and F12. What is the policy for rolling these patches back into upstream and (more importantly in case upstream is slow/reluctant to accept them) rawhide? Also, what is the policy on new packages? Specifically, I found myself in need of openssl098k compatibility package (need to run some binaries from F11). This is pretty trivial to come up with (change the package name from openssl-0.9.8k to openssl098k-0.9.8k in the spec file and re-tar the openssl tar ball to extract to openssl098k-0.9.8k directory instead of openssl-0.9.8k directory), but what I wanted to ask if whether there is some kind of a policy for including things like this in the main distro. It is likely that this would be useful to other people who are less willing/able to roll their own packages. Gordan