I just entered a Jira bug against Geronimo and saw they have a check-box that says 'Patch Available'. It's in a section called 'Geronimo Info'.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1545 You can see if it if you go to edit a GERONIMO issue. This ties in with something I saw in the Forrest Jira page, a query for open issues with available patches. Seems like this would be very useful for Derby. Dan.
