Re: Automatically update drm CI dependencies?

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On 12/19/23 23:43, Helen Koike wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 14/12/2023 06:38, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm referring to dependabot PR on torvalds.git GitHub mirror [1]. I know
>> that PRs submitted there are not accepted (the repo is essentially read-only
>> mirror), hence this mail question.
>>
>> In summary, dependabot submitted automated PR that bumps package versions
>> in `drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/requirements.txt`. In this case, pip was
>> upgraded to 23.3.
>>
>>  From my experience, such automated PRs can pollute commit history (in
>> some GitHub projects these PR kind can contribute up to half of total
>> commits since the beginning of project). And in some projects, dependabot
>> PRs are automatically merged without any maintainer intervention.
>>
>> Does such PRs (when submitted to LKML these will be patches) make sense
>> for DRM subsystem?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/807
>>
> 
> imho I rather not having this automated patches, but I would like to hear the opinions from others.
> 

But why? Did you mean that making the CI always depends on latest version
of dependencies create another maintenance variable (and may constantly
broke CI)?

Confused...

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