Unbalanced prioritization in the images buildbot? (main branch deprioritized too much)

[Thibaut]

> Le 14 nov. 2023 à 18:06, Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> a écrit :
> 
> Thibaut <hacks at slashdirt.org> [2023-11-14 14:25:50]:
> 
>> I’m sorry, I must have missed the part where we advertised that master
>> snapshots are a maintained 'release' suitable for use in a
>> security-conscious context :)
> 
> There is no difference actually, it applies to all branches/releases, so it really
> doesn't matter if you use main snapshot or 23.05.1 release.
> 
> Once the commit lands in the corresponding branch (main, openwrt-23.05 or
> openwrt-22.03) then the packages are going to be built on buildbot and become
> available for `opkg upgrade`, so you don't need to wait for a tagged release
> to get certain fixes possible by a package upgrade.
> 
> In other words, https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.0/ that
> `packages` folder is a symlink to packages-23.05, populated by 23.05 snapshot
> builds.

I understand this rationale for *releases* branch. Not for master. Hence prioritizing the releases branches, which, as we’ve seen just today, has merits.

But I rest my case and I have provided a fix already.

Cheers,
T