On 28/08/14 17:17, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
> On 2014-28-08 9:13, Dominic Cleal wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> We really hope that the puppet4 and facter2 branches were a special 
> circumstance. It is not our intention to have long running feature 
> branches. As soon as 3.7.0 is released, the puppet4 branch will be 
> merged to master, and the puppet4 branch will be retired.
> 
> Since 3.7.0 is about to be released very soon there will not be any 
> puppet4 builds in nightly (until it is on master).

Okay, that makes sense.  Thanks Henrik.

-- 
Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering

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