Re: Can we stop revbumping the world please?

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 07:33:06AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > >  > This is a really good point.   One of the bugs with pkgsrc is that even
 > >  > if most think it is wise to be slow in updating, it only takes one to
 > >  > update.  I would prefer to have consensus about when it's time.
 > >
 > > I am thinking we should have some kind of dashboard for tracking
 > > these, along with an expectation/understanding that updates committed
 > > without the due process get reverted. We've had too many incidents,
 > > and also it's hard to keep track of the details.
 > 
 > https://www.pkgsrc.org/quarterly/
 > 
 > Right now it lists boost and icu.

That's a list of them, not a place to keep track of the current state
for each one. So it certainly beats not having the list, but it isn't
a place I can go and check what the current thinking about the latest
boost is, or prod if nobody's acknowledged a new one yet.

We could just do that on this list, obviously, but it hasn't been
particularly effective.

(Although I guess it works reasonably well for things with longer dwell
time, like python versions.)


In the specific case of icu I noticed the other day that homebrew
carries multiple versions, and obviously we'd rather not do that but
maybe we should think about it.

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost