Why are there "updates" to dev versions of modules that do not include any changes to the code?
Strange, I selected some modules at random and I see dev versions consistently packed 2013-Oct-01. I can't find any one with another date now.

Examples I've tested:


https://drupal.org/project/views_data_export
https://drupal.org/project/views
https://drupal.org/project/prepopulate
https://drupal.org/project/imagecache_actions
https://drupal.org/project/file_entity_revisions
https://drupal.org/project/file_download_count
https://drupal.org/project/scald_file


and many more.

Edit: Some of them, closer to the beginning of alphabet, was packaged one day earlier:


https://drupal.org/project/elysia_cron
https://drupal.org/project/blocktheme


but operation big as this surely needed to take considerable time and it still looks like one long rebuild queue.

With so many unrelated projects repackaged at the same day, and without any correlation to their GIT log, it must be something on the Drupal.org side that triggered mass repackaging.

It's simply impossible that all maintainers decided to rebuild at the same day, plus as far as I remember only way to trigger for them rebuild is via GIT anyway.

GOT IT

https://drupal.org/node/2101175#comment-7919049


  -dev releases are currently being rebuilt ... working alphabetically, and there are a lot of packages, so it will take a while. :)


So it was a manual rebuild triggered to fix an issue with infrastructure, not something planned as regular action.