On 3/18/19 7:46 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 02:01:37PM +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 12:49, Richard Purdie
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> My proposal is therefore that where an upstream has a stable release
>>> mechanism, we should work with that in OE-Core, taking direct stable
>>> version upgrades. We've been doing this already for the kernel and
>>> recipes like openssl. I'd propose we should be doing this more widely.
>>>
>>> I appreciate its hard for the stable maintainer to know which upstreams
>>> focus on this. I therefore believe we should make a list of recipes
>>> where this is acceptable, either in the policy/wiki or through recipe
>>> markup or some other mechanism. I don't worry too much about the
>>> mechanism, we can figure that out, I do believe we need to change our
>>> "no upgrade" rule to be more adaptable.
>> I don't really have a strong opinion on the mechanics behind
>> documenting the behaviour, but how do we decide what upstreams have a
>> suitable stable release?  We don't want to trust every upstream that
>> says they've a 'stable branch' until they can demonstrate that they
>> are competent at the job.
> I would be inclined to go the other way.  If a project says they're
> doing a stable release mechanism, and then, well, aren't, we should
> bring that up with the project and see what they mean by stable.  Is
> there an example here?  If so, is it boost? 
Boost is not an example.  One commit does not set the standard or norm
for the project.
I have seen this happen in the kernel too.

>  And if that's also true, is
> there a second example?  If it's just boost, we could/should note that
> they don't follow the expected rules. 
| But I would hope the general case
> is that projects that say they do a stable branch keep it, well, stable.
Is the project going to be judged by one commit ?

 - Armin
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