On Wed, 05 Oct 2016, Viresh Kumar wrote:
On 05-10-16, 09:49, Lee Jones wrote:
You are experienced enough to know better than this.
:)
a) Contentless pings have never been acceptable. If you genuinely think a patch has been forgotten you should resubmit with a [RESEND]. That is their entire purpose.
Sure, but I really believe a light *ping* is much better than a complete resend to start with. It generates far less noise.
Contentless pings are generally not accepted.
It also has the unfortunate side-effect of placing your patches at the top of the pile, and since I process patches in reverse chronological order, you just put yourself at the back of the list. ;)
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