Re: List of Issues with 'patch_abandoned' assigned to them - as of September 2015

[David Kastrup]

James Lowe <address@hidden> writes:

> On 20/09/15 22:52, Simon Albrecht wrote:
>> On 20.09.2015 23:10, James Lowe wrote:
>>>
>>> My thinking is like this; I pick an issue to work on, I do some stuff,
>>> make a patch, have a discussion, then get bored and go silent.
>>>
>>> The issue is now patch_abandoned.
>>>
>>> What is the benefit of leaving this label (or even having it in the
>>> first place)
>> 
>> One can see immediately that a patch has already been prepared for this
>> issue, which may serve as a starting point for future work. True,
>> anybody to pick up such an issue would have to read through the entire
>> discussion anyway, but I’d rather ask the other way round:
>> What’s the benefit of deleting the Patch label, or the harm that a
>> Patch:abandoned does?
>
> Extra cruft that serves no purpose as I can see.
>
> We have waiting/needs_work already.

Both of those indicate that the Patch is not (yet?) abandoned.

-- 
David Kastrup