[TYPO3-v4] Abandoning patches

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi Dmitry Dulepov,

> Steffen Ritter wrote:
>> only the submitter itself can abandon patch-sets or an admin (the only
>> to me kown person would be Peter Niederlag).
> 
> Is it? Than I probably mixed up. May be I heavily reworked the patch, so
> thought of it as "mine".

Gerrit sends mails for all "involved" people.

> I got about a hundred e-mails for the past two bays from Gerrit, some of
> them with "abandoned" and no solution. So I was pretty upset.
> 
>> So. It's perfectly right if people drop their own requests - isnt it?

> No. Even if they do not want to do it any more, there can be others to
> build upon it. And often there is simply no replacement for the fix.

That is true, but you can just upload the changeset again as a new issue (or 
ask the author/admin to restore it).

I can only speak for myself and I only abandoned a single patch: "Refactor 
getUrl". I did so for two reasons:
1. The patch was incomplete and better solution needs to be spread into 
multiple patches
2. the topic needs to be changed and I think the only way to do this is to 
create a new change.

Best regards
-- 
Philipp Gampe