[Buildroot] Bumping packages: some comments/suggestions

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 15/10/13 09:34, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,
>
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:55:17 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> I understand this point of view, but on the other hand, it's not really
> nice to have packages that have very old versions. For "core" stuff
> that isn't necessarily very easy to bump (think Qt, Gtk, X.org and
> things like that), it's quite important that the core Buildroot
> community keeps that up to date, because this is difficult to do for
> newcomers, and this is what people will look at to see if Buildroot is
> well-maintained and active.

  Yes of course. The version detection idea is certainly useful. I just 
wanted to concur with Thomas DS that this shouldn't distract people from 
fixing autobuilder failures.

  Regards,
  Arnout


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