On 04-11-17 20:29, Christophe Demarey wrote:
It makes sense only for the development image but it could be a nice option to add to the launcher. Do you think it will be used?
I have a personal need for it, but that should of course not be the determining factor. I see several scenario's for this:
- A 'normal' user notices a problem, that gets fixed in a development vm. She needs to test and use it, is probably not interested in following all other new development vms, and ideally should switch as soon as possible to using a newer stable vm again. Supporting the automatic switch to a newer stable vm makes sense for us to avoid having too many new users using the unstable versions. It might be useful to make that decision for an individual image, when other projects are not affected by the issue. So here there would be two choices: I want to download a latest (or version) vm and automatically upgrade to a newer stable when that arrives, and I want to use that for only this image or for all fitting images.
- At the moment I'm running into a lot of the current vm issues. I have some production images that should be using stable, but in my development I want to just use the latest vm that managed to get green tests :) Nearly all new versions are improvements, but once in a while there are changes that need to be reverted. So there I just want to check before starting an image if there is a new vm I can use, and will just ignore that once in a while there is a broken one.
Stephan
