Announce: nightly repos available

[Eric Sorenson]

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. 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!


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[Byron Miller]

Glad to see this Eric! I'll be following this closely to see how well the community picks up running with nightly builds. Time to setup another lab environment to check this out :)

[Martijn]

That's very nice. Should make testing a pre-release easier for many users than building from Git.

Thanks,
Martijn

Op dinsdag 26 augustus 2014 19:23:54 UTC+2 schreef Eric Sorenson:

[Eric Shamow]

+1 great news Eric, thanks.

-Eric

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[Kylo Ginsberg]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Eric Sorenson <eric.s...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

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. 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

As a heads up, we're shooting for releasing Puppet 3.7.0 on Tuesday. It'll have loads of goodies:

https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=12628

As discussed above, we're *not* doing RCs for this release, but we still love to get feedback prior to release. So if you're accustomed to trying out RCs, or just curious about an early glimpse at 3.7.0, please try out puppet-latest on the nightly repos, using the instructions above.

Thanks!

Kylo

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Kylo Ginsberg

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