Clean up state on patchwork

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 09/28/2015 12:21 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 28 Sep 2015 15:53, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>
>>>> What if you're on vacation? What if you're busy? The patchwork queue
>>>> is still really helpful to keep your list of patches you need to go
>>>> back to and resubmit.
>>>
>>> my proposal doesn't prevent that.  perform a search where the owner is you and
>>> the state is set to dropped.
>>
>> Dropped is for patches the submitter decided to drop.  It's meant to be an 
>> explicit submitter decision that a patch is no longer of relevance, not 
>> someone else's decision.
> 
> OK.  then lets simply re-assign all the patches from these people to themselves
> and then we can search for patches that require review but have no owner.
> -mike

Isn't it simply easier to add a "Resubmit" state, mark it as "not needing action"
(so it doesn't show up on the normal lists) and go from there?

c.