From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B0873243 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 1B803F811F2; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:14:37 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783D8F811F2; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:14:37 -0600 (MDT) To: "Burton, Ross" 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> <55F172C9.3030601@linux.intel.com> <55F173AC.7010808@mlbassoc.com> From: Gary Thomas Message-ID: <55F17470.6000304@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:15:44 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: OE-core Subject: Re: 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 12:14:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2015-09-10 06:12, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 10 September 2015 at 13:12, Gary Thomas > wrote: > > What would you do to the poor sod that sends a patch upstream > (i.e. Pending) that is not being moved on by the upstream holders? > Punish him by making his patch (and potentially all others he > has created) invalid? Seems a bit harsh... > > > Send upstream is Upstream-Status: Submitted. > > Pending means "I wrote a patch but cannot be bothered to send it upstream". Fair enough, that's a different case which does seem to warrant this treatment. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------