[RFC] dropping of $(AUTORELEASE) feature

[Josef Schlehofer]

On 06. 11. 22 21:22, Hannu Nyman wrote:
> Paul Spooren kirjoitti 6.11.2022 klo 18.15:
>> While I initially thought that $(AUTORELEASE) would be a nice feature 
>> to avoid the standard review comment “Please bump the PKG_RELEASE”, 
>> it turned into a massive increase of bandwidth usage: Every checkout 
>> of openwrt.git and package feeds needs to be a full clone instead of 
>> a shallow one to have all commits in place.
>>
>> I’m suggesting dropping that feature and instead implement a (GitHub) 
>> CI workflow which fails if the commit did not bump the PKG_RELEASE.
>>
>> It wasn’t a fully thought through idea and I think it’s time to 
>> revert it - sorry for the inconvenience.
>>
>> Other thoughts?
>
>
> The AUTORELEASE has been a nice feature from the package PR 
> maintenance perspective.
>
> Earlier there was constant trouble with concurrent PRs for the same 
> package having the same PKG_RELEASE bump, or the maintainer doing a 
> small change with a bump while there was an open PR with the same 
> bump. The led to trivial conflicts and rebase needs for PRs. 
> AUTORELEASE has tackled that nicely. 
+1