Here is a summary of the key points from the Hacker News post:
Positive Sentiment
- Google Chrome is working on releasing new versions faster to get bug fixes, security updates, and new features to users quicker.
- Google wants to improve the release process to be faster.
Negative Sentiment
- Frequent releases increase the burden on developers who maintain Chromium forks, having to keep rebuilding and testing with each new version.
- Some think the releases have too much bloat and take too long to compile already.
- Frequent Chrome updates sometimes break ChromeDriver/WebDriver used for browser automation testing.
Recommend actions
- Look for ways to make the Chromium build process faster and reduce unnecessary bloat.
- Provide better support for major fork maintainers to stay in sync with new releases.
- Increase stability of the ChromeDriver API and reduce breakages between versions.
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