[PD-dev] etiquette for closing sourceforge patches?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 1, 2006, at 5:08 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:
>
>> What's proper etiquette for marking "patches" closed on sourceforge?   
>> Should
>> I be closing patches when I apply them to cvsmain or assuming the  
>> proposer will
>> do that?
>
> I'd say, the patches should be closed by you, if accepted or rejected.
> Another question: Are you also going through the Feature suggestion
> tracker [1]  sometimes? I recognized, that most of these aren't
> assigned to anybody. I allowed myself to add you as a possible "assign
> target" there as well now. ;) I hope, this is okay?
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=55736&atid=478073

Personally, I don't think that Miller should close "Rejected" or other  
patches, only "Accepted".  Leaving non-Accepted patches open gives the  
patch submitter the opportunity to correct problems or update the  
patch.

.hc

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