Re: Automatically update drm CI dependencies?

[Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com>]

On 20/12/2023 08:11, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> 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...

Sorry I didn't reply earlier.

I'm ok with that if it doesn't produce much noise, I also think that we 
need an automated test to see if the tool is still working as expected 
before merging the patch.
The pip there is just used for a helper tool, it is nothing critical.

Regards,
Helen

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