From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com (mail-pa0-f50.google.com [209.85.220.50]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56B56E26B for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by padhk3 with SMTP id hk3so46075049pad.3 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:37:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qowP41pYhvu3poaREqXJ4TyNZeHsNwQm0oWu/JXQ2Tc=; b=X7ZcQLr8tuzVUfPIwfj1PReFimLtBEYesfjbGvC+PdlWQdr1yBPSbj0vlVdgz285yn OHDzPvWA1RDXHqQjqTWOC9hoI1gZ0oF5r3XQLx5shQ70iXqHwjzW5jkrOBXamseQikEu gXxqa7xDx0+BPuyGGpv2/Ywu+OI1KNdOlSl41WGBsHlu58tvfLPBit1bd4l3+rMD2VsW zPfvOqfk/6K8pAaNDZY3JZXaIA5Tb2JrojkT+B5Z0bpdEgqF/STmdnZLtKE6r0g/m2a7 n4Ls2UQkRKqcD3EMg4aeNMbKqgNQKtxY7oYY1e6OGXg4q/XNqXC8q6h7HD/sA4TglFga nlHA== X-Received: by 10.66.253.129 with SMTP id aa1mr74318583pad.24.1441899478520; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2601:202:4000:1239:5888:bc0f:f0c6:30a3? ([2601:202:4000:1239:5888:bc0f:f0c6:30a3]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id ki3sm12732124pbc.9.2015.09.10.08.37.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55F1A3D3.30106@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:37:55 -0700 From: akuster808 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Kanavin , 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> <55F172C9.3030601@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <55F172C9.3030601@linux.intel.com> 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 15:37:58 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/10/2015 05:08 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > 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 :-) That might just alter peoples behavior and change them to use "Submitted" and still not do anything. It does not address the issue. Having the ability to report a patch's status does have some merit. What is done with it is a different story. - armin > > > Alex