[oe] meta-oe post holiday patchwork cleanup

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Peter Bigot <bigotp at acm.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
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>> tl;dr version: get your subject-prefix right
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've cleaned up patchwork by marking every meta-oe patch as archived, minus
>> the one Martin just sent.
>>
>> This means all the pending patches for meta-oe are listed here:
>>
>> http://patches.openembedded.org/project/oe/list/?q=meta-oe
>>
>> If your patches are missing, resend them using the method outlined in the
>> README of the respective meta-openembedded layer.
>>
>> I'll include the meta-oe one below, since too many patches still don't comply:
>>
>> - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> This layer depends on:
>>
>> URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
>> branch: master
>> revision: HEAD
>>
>> Send pull requests to openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org with
>> '[meta-oe]' in the subject'
>>
>> When sending single patches, please use something like 'git send-email -1
>> - --to openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org --subject-prefix meta-oe'
>>
>> You are encouraged to fork the mirror on github
>> https://github.com/openembedded/meta-oe/ to share your patches, this is
>> preferred for patch sets consisting of more than one patch. Other services
>> like gitorious, repo.or.cz or self hosted setups are of course accepted as
>> well, 'git fetch <remote>' works the same on all of them. We recommend
>> github because it is free, easy to use, has been proven to be reliable and
>> has a really good web GUI.
>>
>> Main layer maintainer: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
>>
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>>
>> The most important thing of that is the subject prefix. I only read emails
>> with a [meta-<foo>] subject prefix on oe-devel nowadays and I look at
>> http://patches.openembedded.org/project/oe/list/?q=meta- more often than
>> oe-devel.
>>
>> So: Get your subject-prefix right
>>
>> And kudos to Andreas, Martin and Otavio for getting their pull requests
>> right pretty much all the time.
>
> While I appreciate that a blanket "throw it out; if they care they'll
> resend it" approach is an effective way to deal with the backlog
> resulting from an absence, I don't appreciate that in addition to the
> time I spent crafting patches to improve oe-core and submitting them
> (with the right prefix AFAIK), I am now expected to do so again.
> Further, the archived discussion of one of my patches included a
> request for clarification on how to address a licensing issue which
> was never answered, and which now presumably never will be.
>
> This sort of practice discourages people (well, me at least) from
> contributing to this project.

Perhaps you can just mark them correctly in patchworks again instead
of resubmitting? Somewhat easier, you can even keep a list of patch
id's and do this automatically via the pwclient.

-M