Version policy : third-party upgrades in a minor release ?

[Tom Zeller]

> On Oct 23, 2015, at 3:07 AM, Rod Widdowson <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
> 
>> I guess it's the/my/our subjectivity that I want to replace with a tool. 
> 
> I'd tend to disagree[*].  I have pretty much never seen any software
> engineering tool have the ability to do anything than assist in making these
> calls.  Subjectivity is only bad when it's in the hands of the less than
> competent.    We can choose to deploy tools, no objection from me; but I'd
> not rely on them and certainly not in some formalized mechanism.
> 
> [*] Actually I feel rather more strongly than tend.  But I've not had enough
> coffee yet to launch into a rant:-)

Makes sense.

I would need to get a feel for those tools though, I ran the Perl script one and it was straightforward, we could have a Jenkins job publish it’s reports.