[Openembedded-architecture] Stable releases and version upgrades

[Burton, Ross]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 12:49, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> My proposal is therefore that where an upstream has a stable release
> mechanism, we should work with that in OE-Core, taking direct stable
> version upgrades. We've been doing this already for the kernel and
> recipes like openssl. I'd propose we should be doing this more widely.
>
> I appreciate its hard for the stable maintainer to know which upstreams
> focus on this. I therefore believe we should make a list of recipes
> where this is acceptable, either in the policy/wiki or through recipe
> markup or some other mechanism. I don't worry too much about the
> mechanism, we can figure that out, I do believe we need to change our
> "no upgrade" rule to be more adaptable.

I don't really have a strong opinion on the mechanics behind
documenting the behaviour, but how do we decide what upstreams have a
suitable stable release?  We don't want to trust every upstream that
says they've a 'stable branch' until they can demonstrate that they
are competent at the job.

Ross