From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Rosen Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:38:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Buildroot] Bumping packages: some comments/suggestions In-Reply-To: <20131014113000.73ca82bf@skate> Message-ID: <1642454622.8785613.1381743494806.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net > > I must say I'm not a big fan of the automatic build, which may > encourage people to do "careless" bump, i.e version bumps without > looking at least a little bit at what changed, and taking a set back > by > looking at the version number, or the project web site, to see if the > version bump is small, or major. > yeah, that's the "might not be a good idea" part... I was more thinking on the line of "this is a minor release and it compiles correctly, it's probably an easy job to test and bump" i.e for the case of minor/security releases upstream. It's a balance between helping maintainers work fast, helping project managers see low hanging fruites and making sure people are not too lazy... > For the second one, I agree. We have discussed a few times having the > notion of package maintainers. Probably something that will be worth > discussing at this time. > > Best regards, > > Thomas > -- > Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons > Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering > http://free-electrons.com >