Hi Am 08.12.22 um 02:37 schrieb Alan Coopersmith:
Normally when I go through the list of modules which have had git commits since their last release was tagged to decide what to make new releases of, I skip over those which only have changes that don't really affect the installed files, such as the changes for migrating to gitlab, autogenscript updates, CI updates, changing the tarball type from .bz2 to .xz, etc.This has resulted in some modules not getting released in many years. For instance most of the font modules were last released in 2010, but have an assortment of small changes we could release, like: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/adobe-100dpi/-/commits/master but which wouldn't result in any changes I see to the installed font files. But we keep getting bugs filed for the ancient generated autoconf scripts not recognizing new platforms like RISC-V, such as the 4 "BUILD FAIL" bugs on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/groups/xorg/font/-/issues . And I've had another distro packager email me recently asking to make new releases of various drivers, such as all the xf86-video-sun* modules. Am I being too picky about deciding if a release is warranted? Is it going to annoy other distro packagers if we make a few more releases than we have before? (Maybe ship font package updates every 6 years instead of waiting for 12?) Honestly, from a purely selfish point of view with my day job hat on, having a few more releases helps us since our policy requires reviewing any FOSS package that hasn't had an upstream release in the past few years to verify it's not dead/abandoned/etc. and it's less work for me to make a quick package release than it is to go through our review process. (Which is admittedly why there have been a number of recent releases that just fix compiler & cppcheck warnings when there's nothing else to do.)
Thanks for taking care of those packages. I think more regular releases would be a good thing. For our distros at SUSE, we generally prefer upstream releases over carrying patches in our repos.
Best regards Thomas -- Thomas Zimmermann Graphics Driver Developer SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev
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