I like the idea of nightly builds. Hopefully it could be tied into Jenkins and have passed some sort of quality check. That way only known 'good' builds are exposed.
Ahmad On May 17, 2013, at 5:32 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > We need to be careful about how we approach this. A "release" is something > that is voted on. A "release candidate" is something that is about to be > voted on. If you you don't vote on something, it's not a release. And if > you've voted on something, it's no longer a candidate. :) > > Two things we could do: > > * Vote on, and officially release, beta/alpha versions. (This comes with the > overhead of the release procedure, and community fatigue of the > voting/testing cycle.) > > * Set up easy-to-access nightlies. Link to them from a place on the dev > section of the site, and make sure that people who we send there release that > these are _not_ releases. > > > On 17 May 2013 07:56, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com> wrote: >> +1. >> Need the beta especially because folks would want to test early and >> crossing the last mile can take a bit of time. >> But hopefully its not too much of an overhead. >> >> Thanks, >> -Nitin >> >> On 16/05/13 7:27 AM, "Musayev, Ilya" <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: >> >> >+1, perhaps I'm late to this thread, but this makes lot of sense. >> > >> > >> >-------- Original message -------- >> >From: Pranav Saxena <pranav.sax...@citrix.com> >> >Date: >> >To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org,aemne...@gmail.com >> >Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Should we be releasing -beta releases? >> > >> > >> >+1 to what Ahmad says here . Perfect reasoning . >> > >> >There have been many users on the list asking for some capability >> >/feature present in CloudStack when it's actually under development in >> >the current release. Beta release would allow them to get a feel of it . >> >Definitely , it would help to further refine any new feature further when >> >actually tested in a production environment . >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Ahmad Emneina [mailto:aemne...@gmail.com] >> >Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:07 AM >> >To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> >Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Should we be releasing -beta releases? >> > >> >+1 >> >I feel this allows for users who are chomping at the bit to get a hold of >> >feature X. Tinker with feature X, expose bugs or use case issues well >> >before an official release. Saves on the disappointment as well. ;) >> > >> > >> >On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Chip Childers >> ><chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:59:14AM -0400, David Nalley wrote: >> >> > Are you going to support upgrades from your Betas to release (and >> >> > betaN to betaN+1)? >> >> > If the answer is no, then there is no interest on my part. It's not >> >> > better than us producing nightly builds, or highlighting jenkins >> >> > builds. >> >> >> >> Perhaps doing a better job of highlighting nightly builds at key >> >> moments is the right answer to the problem I was trying to solve (more >> >> user testing of upgrades)? >> >> >> >> The beta idea comes with some overhead, and perhaps that overhead >> >> isn't worth the benefit (if there are other ways to achieve that >> >> goal). And that's why I floated the idea... to get reactions. >> >> >> >> > >> >> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Chip Childers >> >> > <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: >> >> > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:56:36PM +0100, Daan Hoogland wrote: >> >> > >> As a relative outsider; >> >> > >> >> >> > >> any branch that is not released yet is a beta release. Why make >> >> > >> it >> >> more >> >> > >> explicit. Wouldn't this add support burdon? Make a branch 'in beta' >> >> and >> >> > >> appoint a guard to make sure no new feartures but only fixes go >> >> > >> in >> >> (kind of >> >> > >> how you are working right now) >> >> > > >> >> > > So we do that today. However, a "release" as a -beta will get >> >> > > more >> >> user >> >> > > attention eariler in our release cycle (at least that's my >> >> > > theory). We need that user attention to help us ensure that >> >>upgrades work. >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> >> > >> Daan >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> >> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > On Tue, May 14, 2013, at 09:41 AM, Chip Childers wrote: >> >> > >> > > As a way to get more user feedback on our major feature >> >> > >> > > releases, >> >> what >> >> > >> > > does everyone think about releasing one or two -beta releases >> >> > >> > > for >> >> each >> >> > >> > > major feature release? >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> > Yes to beta releases. I know that users could test at any time, >> >> > >> > but >> >> we >> >> > >> > need explicit targets for users that say "now is a good time to >> >> > >> > test this and give feedback." >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> > +1 >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> > Best, >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> > jzb >> >> > >> > -- >> >> > >> > Joe Brockmeier >> >> > >> > j...@zonker.net >> >> > >> > Twitter: @jzb >> >> > >> > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> >> > > > > -- > NS
