• John Colvin (7/7) May 25 2014 What is the etiquette for taking over a pull request to speed it
• monarch_dodra (3/10) May 25 2014 Arguably, as long as the original author appears as the commit

"John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

What is the etiquette for taking over a pull request to speed it 
to merge?

Would the following be acceptable?

Create up to date fork branch of upstream.
Apply the commits from said pull request to this new branch.
Add extra commits as appropriate.
Create new pull request(s).

"monarch_dodra" <monarchdodra gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 25 May 2014 at 11:54:35 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
 What is the etiquette for taking over a pull request to speed 
 it to merge?

 Would the following be acceptable?

 Create up to date fork branch of upstream.
 Apply the commits from said pull request to this new branch.
 Add extra commits as appropriate.
 Create new pull request(s).

Arguably, as long as the original author appears as the commit 
authors, it should be fine.