contributor-guide: style-guide: discourage using Pending patch status

Suggested-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Suggested-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
(From yocto-docs rev: 4924c900582aaa803b003e10e48fc4a4373f6a77)

Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Roland Hieber
2023-09-22 12:00:06 +02:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent f60c81287e
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@@ -286,7 +286,14 @@ Then, you should also add an ``Upstream-Status:`` tag containing one of the
following status strings:
``Pending``
No determination has been made yet or not yet submitted to upstream.
No determination has been made yet, or patch has not yet been submitted to
upstream.
Keep in mind that every patch submitted upstream reduces the maintainance
burden in OpenEmbedded and Yocto Project in the long run, so this patch
status should only be used in exceptional cases if there are genuine
obstacles to submitting a patch upstream; the reason for that should be
included in the patch.
``Submitted [where]``
Submitted to upstream, waiting for approval. Optionally include where