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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-09-10 06:12, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 10 September 2015 at 13:12, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> 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.

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