[PD-dev] etiquette for closing sourceforge patches?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> With "rejected" patches I meant patches, that were really *rejected*,
> that is, stuff that will never be accepted like e.g. a patch to remove
> all math objects or so. Items, that aren't accepted now, don't have to
> be rejected automatically. However once something really is rejected,
> I don't see, why it should be left in an "open" state.

Yeah I guess that makes sense.  Therefore the list will be kept fresh,  
without stale abandoned "Rejected" patches staying around.  If someone  
wanted to revive a rejected patch, they can switch it from Closed to  
Open.

.hc
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