bug and new package

Hi, Last year I submitted a bug through bugzilla.redhat.com, which affects recode-3.6-9 in Fedore Core 1. A recommended patch is also attached. It has still a status NEW, so it seems for me nothing happened until now. Is it possible to make the bug handling process faster? The package, I would like to submit, requires recode. New packages: I'm a bit confused now how to contribute new packages. On fedora.us I can read, it will be merged with fedora.redhat and the package naming guideline applies only to fedora.us. On fedora.redhat there are information about a future Extra, Alternative ... repository structure and a modified package naming concept (latter is in the mailing list)... What to do then? Is it better to wait for finishing the merging, or to submit to fedora.us? Zoli