[RFC] dropping of $(AUTORELEASE) feature

[Paul Spooren]

Hi,

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?

Best,
Paul