On 26/08/14 18:23, Eric Sorenson wrote: > After the Puppet 3.5.0 release problems, we had a retrospective and tried to > figure out some process improvements which would have surfaced the problems > earlier. Despite a lengthy 4-week release candidate cycle, that release still > had a fatal flaw that nobody had caught until it went into final release. As > we talked it over, our thoughts turned to continuous delivery. Puppet (along > with most of the other open-source projects) already produces packaged > artifacts as moves through our Jenkins pipeline, so it seemed like a natural > step to make those packages publicly available. > > In lieu of release candidates, we are moving toward a more automated system > which will have the latest green builds (passed spec and Beaker acceptance > tests) cut off the 'master' branch for most of our projects.
Would it be possible to build packages for other branches (like puppet-4, or facter-2 when it was in development) in the future? I'm especially interested in tracking incompatible Puppet 4 changes. (http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/coprs/domcleal/puppet4-nightly/ are my builds of puppet-4.) > What this means is that as we near feature complete on a release, like the > coming Puppet 3.7.0 release, users like yourself can begin trying out the > packages to ensure that the new features haven't broken anything you depend > on, and that the new features work the way you expect/want them to. > > The repos are live now and you can try them out by following these directions: > https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#using-the-nightly-repos > > Hopefully this will help get faster turnaround AND better coverage. Please > let us know if you find it useful! This is great, many thanks. I had been building RPMs on copr (dead easy with Puppet's packaging helpers) and running Foreman's installer & smoke tests with them, which helped us spot incompatible changes and regressions quickly. I'd encourage everybody to do something similar if they have a similar test suite, it's been very valuable. -- Dominic Cleal Red Hat Engineering -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/53FED67E.9090608%40redhat.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
