Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 16:50 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 09:31 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > Hi developers,
> >
> > Please remember that action is required when updating your
> > dependencies 
> > or build options. You need to either make sure gnome-build-meta is
> > OK
> > with your changes, or ask release team to investigate on your
> > behalf.
> >
> > We've had at least four separate breakages from four separate
> > projects 
> > in the past few days. This is too much. Please be careful. Thanks!
>
> Sorry to have caused one of those breakages. I think this is going to
> keep happening, though, since remembering to ping an external party
> when dependencies change is hard. It’s something that happens
> infrequently, and is not part of people’s normal
> code/compile/review/merge cycle, so it’s not surprising they forget.
>
> Perhaps there’s scope for a CI bot which reminds developers to look
> at
> updating gnome-build-meta whenever a meson.build is changed. That bot
> could be set up for every project which is listed in gnome-build-
> meta.
>
> Or, if it’s appropriate, the bot could file an issue against gnome-
> build-meta and assign the developer who’s touching meson.build to
> that
> issue. Or something.

The same problems that existed in 2019 still exist:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-September/msg00014.html

Developers still have no visibility over the gnome-build-meta builds.