[oe] Upstreaming patches

[Graham Gower]

On 12 April 2011 09:16, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> Saul Wold asked me about upstreaming some of the patches in OE. Apparently,
> Intel has some people who can look at submitting some of our patches
> upstream.
>
> The question is, what do we do about attribution? The problem is that is not
> simple for many cases working out who created the patch. Rather than spend
> time chasing through the revision history, it would be simpler to send the
> patches upstream mentioning the source as derived from OE.
>
> My thoughts are no reasonable OE contributor would object to someone else
> upstreaming their patches :), but I thought I should ask people what they
> thought.
>
> Obviously, if there is a complex patch the situation is different, but I
> suspect most of the easy patches do not fall into this category.
>
> Comments?
>
> Philip
>

Sounds good. I think omission of attribution if no original author can
be identified is fine. Its more important that the work not be lost.

Please note that many patches submitted upstream have already been
ignored by upstream.

-Graham