[RFC] dropping of $(AUTORELEASE) feature

[Josef Schlehofer]

On 06. 11. 22 17:15, Paul Spooren wrote:
> 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.
What happened with the switch to CDN? There is also a possibility that 
users can use GitHub as a mirror to avoid increased bandwidth usage on 
your server.
BTW: The $(AUTORELEASE) feature is nicely implemented and should not be 
dropped.