Clean up state on patchwork

[Joseph Myers]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> 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?

It would be wrong to put a patch in such a state without explicitly 
informing the person concerned that it's been put in such a state (and 
wrong to do so at all for infrequent contributors, where we should be 
helping them along rather than adding hoops for them to jump).  I'm not 
actually convinced there should be such a state at all; if on review you 
think the patch is no longer applicable to current sources that's Changes 
Requested, if it applies but you want retesting you can say e.g. "OK if it 
still applies cleanly and tests OK" (that's Accepted, moving to Changes 
Requested if it doesn't still work).

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com