On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 1:47 AM, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdzi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:28:32AM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
>>
>> My main concern is that we would then introduce a concept of "next"
>> that isn't well defined within the Release Engineering vocabulary or
>> the Fedora Project at large as any sort of milestone deliverable.
>> (Where as in debian land "stable", "testing", and "unstable"/"sid" are
>> well defined streams of code/content).
>>
>> What we could do is release Fedora N+1 at Alpha, Beta, and Final times
>> and tag is as N-alpha, N-beta, and then finally just N (and latest).
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Fedora 24 is current stable -> docker image:tag fedora:24 and
>> fedora:latest point to this.
>>
>> Fedora 25 Alpha is released -> push docker image:tag fedora:25-alpha to the 
>> Hub
>>
>> Fedora 25 Beta is released -> push docker image:tag fedora:25-beta to
>> the Hub (removing fedora:25-alpha tag)
>>
>> Fedora 25 GA is released -> push docker image:tag fedora:25 (removing
>> the fedora:25-beta tag and update fedora:latest to point to fedora:25)
>>
>> Fedora Rawhide continues rolling along as it does fedora:rawhide (we
>> tend to update this roughly once a month right now)
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Having easy way to get the next release container after Alpha and not
> just rawhide (which is next next by that time) would definitely be
> appreciated. Having the name reasonably stable for a couple of weeks
> would be a nice benefit, especially for automated testing. Therefore,
> fedora:25-alpha, fedora:25-beta would be really good.
>
> I just don't like the proposal of removing fedora:25-alpha the moment
> fedora:25-beta is released -- there might be a need to debug some
> regression and easy way to get Alpha even after Beta is out might be
> useful. I'd propose to remove all pre-release tags one month after the
> GA (fedora:25 in this example) has been made available.

+1 - Removing pre-release tags when GA becomes available, I think that
makes sense.

-AdamM

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