[Buildroot] Bumping packages: some comments/suggestions

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 14/10/13 12:02, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr> wrote:
> [..]
>>
>> 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...
>>
> [..]
>
> What I wanted to add in this discussion is this: if there are people
> out there that have time for some buildroot development but they have
> no clear goal of their own, they can among others choose between
> package bumps and fixing autobuild failures.
> While there certainly is value in package bumping, I hope that not all
> of these people jump onto the bump-train and instead help with the
> autobuild failures. We still hope to get to 0 failures at some point,
> and bumping packages all the time will most of the time only add new
> problems.

  I'm also not too hot on version bumping just for the sake of bumping. 
Version bumps should be done when they're useful for someone, e.g. 
because a feature or bugfix is added. If it's useful to you, then you'll 
obviously test if it still works correctly.


  Regards,
  Arnout


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