[RFC] dropping of $(AUTORELEASE) feature

[Hannu Nyman]

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.
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> I’m suggesting dropping that feature and instead implement a (GitHub) CI workflow which fails if the commit did not bump the PKG_RELEASE.
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> It wasn’t a fully thought through idea and I think it’s time to revert it - sorry for the inconvenience.
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> 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.