On 22 December 2013 18:02, Chet Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 20, 2013, at 14:07 , Russell Bryant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's not your code, so you really can't propose it without them having > signed the CLA, or propose it as your own. > > > Is there a time limit on this sort of thing? As an example there is a bug we > opened 2 years ago that still has not been fixed. Someone posted a patch to > the laundpad 4 months ago that addresses the issue but hasn't submitted a > review. How long do we wait before its ok to submit the patch so we can have > the fix? Is there some way we can note where the original code came from so > as not to be viewed as stealing credit? > > I ask now because I planned on posted a review with tests in next week or so > because we really need the fix > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/856764).
There is a time limit - 70 years after the authors death. I suggest not waiting for that and instead writing a new patch yourself. -Rob -- Robert Collins <[email protected]> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
