Standard needed for what is a "disruptive" patch

Posted by jhodgdon on October 3, 2011 at 5:26pm

Coming from http://drupal.org/node/1295500#comment-5068622

There is frustration among new developers about how to make issues and patches that cause a minimum of disruption and a maximum of ease for reviewers/committers.

So we need to make a page explaining this. Suggested outline is on the above comment, and suggested place to put it is either:
http://drupal.org/patch
or
http://drupal.org/patch/review

Probably as a sub-page of one, linked to from the other, tentative page title is "Patch scope".

Filing this issue to make sure this doc gets created and reviewed.

Further discussion at http://drupal.org/node/1298194