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From: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 03:56:20PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>...
> so upgrading
> from e.g. initial release revision of dunfell to latest in oe-core together
> with all other layers,
>...

Your "together" is an assumption that is not always true in my experience.

> Point releases are nice, but people should really use whatever is latest
> revisions in the branches they use and that's IMHO the recommendation from
> Yocto Project itself as well (IIRC we discussed it in OE TSC when talking
> about tags for point releases).

What often strikes me about OE/Yocto is how far apart what developer 
think how things should be done is from what users are actually doing.

Yocto lacks novice level documentation how users should maintain
a distribution they got from somewhere for building a product.

> Regards,

cu
Adrian