[OE-core] Policy for 'Pending' patches (was Re: [PATCH 02/16] slang: Fix namespace conflict vis-a-vis posix_close)

[Alexander Kanavin]

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