contributor-guide: style-guide: discourage using Pending patch status

Suggested-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Suggested-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
(From yocto-docs rev: 7826ddb9bc397f3c59c69b8b4480911466c5f628)

Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst b/documentation/contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst
index e03b8ff2ba..a005aa3247 100644
--- a/documentation/contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst
+++ b/documentation/contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst
@@ -286,7 +286,14 @@ Then, you should also add an ``Upstream-Status:`` tag containing one of the
 following status strings:
 
 ``Pending``
-   No determination has been made yet or not yet submitted to upstream.
+   No determination has been made yet, or patch has not yet been submitted to
+   upstream.
+
+   Keep in mind that every patch submitted upstream reduces the maintainance
+   burden in OpenEmbedded and Yocto Project in the long run, so this patch
+   status should only be used in exceptional cases if there are genuine
+   obstacles to submitting a patch upstream; the reason for that should be
+   included in the patch.
 
 ``Submitted [where]``
    Submitted to upstream, waiting for approval. Optionally include where