My favorite is when while you were working through all that, the upstream decided they need a CLA. And then you have to go through another round of checking to

My favorite is when while you were working through all that, the upstream decided they need a CLA. And then you have to go through another round of checking to see if your company thinks it's ok for you to agree to sign that for a 1 line change. Certainly easier to give a good bug report and let upstream write the change, if they will.