From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF01076E04 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:06:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orsmga003.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.27]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Sep 2015 05:06:52 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,504,1437462000"; d="scan'208";a="642171069" Received: from kanavin-desktop.fi.intel.com (HELO [10.237.68.161]) ([10.237.68.161]) by orsmga003.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Sep 2015 05:06:52 -0700 Message-ID: <55F172C9.3030601@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:08:41 +0300 From: Alexander Kanavin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <0b794c84466fef2ece1269e01820503b4bce0b52.1441753511.git.raj.khem@gmail.com> <63981.10.252.58.194.1441792979.squirrel@linux.intel.com> <64065.10.252.58.194.1441794205.squirrel@linux.intel.com> <32176B14-814F-40D7-A452-86D835E38FCB@gmail.com> <55F1679C.5090508@linux.intel.com> <55F16E82.1070708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55F16E82.1070708@gmail.com> Subject: Policy for 'Pending' patches (was Re: [PATCH 02/16] slang: Fix namespace conflict vis-a-vis posix_close) X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:06:52 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/10/2015 02:50 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: >> Then we can formulate a policy on top of that: for example, if a patch >> has been 'Pending' for 3 months, the person who added it gets a >> reminder to update the status; if the patch has been 'Pending' for 6 >> months and the patch person has been unresponsive, no more patches are >> accepted from that person until he does the upstreaming of the ones he >> already got into oe-core. Something like that. > > With so many maintainers on so many different layers/etc we would need > some sort of billboard somewhere listing the names of people currently > on the "naughty" list ;-) Yes, something similar to http://recipes.yoctoproject.org And the autobuilder could automatically reject or flag a patch that adds custom 'Pending' patches, if the patch author is determined to be on the 'naughty' list :-) Alex