Hello all, tl;dr: nightlies are fixed, we're staying on top of them. report issues
As you might have picked up, the nightlies were a bit unstable and unreliable lately. The biggest problem was that core and packaging drifted apart. For now this has been synced up.
Now the challenge is to keep them synced up. For starters we introduced code owners[1]. The idea is that we have files for which we consider the packaging team the owner. They should be involved in any PR which changes these files so we can act on changes rather than seeing the nightlies fail. A compounding facter is that bundler does check dependencies where npm doesn't. With a (current) lack of tooling manual work must suffice.
This is currently not yet working since the packaging team doesn't have merge permissions and even then we don't know how well it'll work in practice. Time and experience will tell.
If you have a change that might affect packaging, feel free to ask @theforeman/packaging on github.
In the longer term we should develop tooling that can automatically point us to problems and help us respond faster to changes.
We've also talked about vendorizing NPM packages. While this is still planned, there are other high priority items (Foreman tasks to core, Rail 5.1) so no promises on the timeline. Until then we have our current solution that does work and we know how to handle.
[1] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/17501e48cea4f62ee23dc04dc7a153ce3b059278 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
