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Dmitry,

I totally agree that we should support nightly builds in upgrades. I've
created a blueprint for this:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/upgrade-nightly


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Dmitry Borodaenko <dborodaenko at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> We should not confuse beta and rc builds, normally betas predate RCs and
> serve a different purpose. In that sense, the nightlies we currently
> publish are closest to what beta builds should be.
>
> As discussed earlier in the thread, we already have full versioning and
> provenance information in each build, so there is not a lot of value in
> inventing a parallel versioning scheme just for the time period when our
> builds are feature complete but not yet stable enough to declare an RC. The
> only benefit is to explicitly indicate the beta status of these builds, and
> we can achieve that without messing with versions. For example, by
> generating a summary table of all community builds that have passed the
> tests (using same build numbers we already have).
>
> Not supporting upgrades from/to intermediate builds is a limitation that
> we should not discard as inevitable, overcoming it should be in our
> backlog. Image based provisioning should make it much easier to support.
>
> My 2c,
> -Dmitry
> I would not use "beta" word anywhere at all. These are nightly builds,
> pre-5.1. So it will become 5.1 eventually, but for the moment - it is just
> master branch. We've not even reached HCF.
>
> After we reach HCF, we will start calling builds as Release Candidates
> (RC1, RC2, etc.)  - and QA team runs acceptance testing against them. This
> can be considered as another name instead of "beta-1", etc.
>
> Anyone can go to <fuel-master-IP>:8000/api/version to get sha commits of
> git repos a particular build was created of. Yes, these are development
> builds, and there will be no upgrade path provided from development build
> to 5.1 release or any other release. We might want to think about it
> though, if we could do it in theory, but I confirm what Evgeny says - we do
> not support it now.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Evgeniy L <eli at mirantis.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys, I have to say something about beta releases.
>>
>> As far as I know our beta release has the same version
>> 5.1 as our final release.
>>
>> I think this versions should be different, because in case
>> of some problem it will be much easier to identify what
>> version we are trying to debug.
>>
>> Also from the irc channel I've heard that somebody wanted
>> to upgrade his system to stable version, right now it's impossible
>> because upgrade system uses this version for names of
>> containers/images/temporary directories and we have
>> validation which prevents the user to run upgrade to the
>> same version.
>>
>> In upgrade script we use python module [1] to compare versions
>> for validation.
>> Let me give an example how development versions can look like
>>
>>     5.1a1 # alpha
>>     5.1b1 # beta 1
>>     5.1b1 # beta 2
>>     5.1b1 # beta 3
>>     5.1    # final release
>>
>> [1]
>> http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/distutils.version.StrictVersion-class.html
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Mike Scherbakov <
>> mscherbakov at mirantis.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Igor,
>>> thanks a lot for improving UX over it - this table allows me to see
>>> which ISO passed verification tests.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Vladimir Kuklin <vkuklin at mirantis.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would also like to add that you can use our library called devops
>>>> along with system tests we use for QA and CI. These tests use libvirt and
>>>> kvm so that you can easily fire up an environment with specific
>>>> configuration (Centos/Ubuntu Nova/Neutron Ceph/Swift and so on). All the
>>>> documentation how to use this library is here:
>>>> http://docs.mirantis.com/fuel-dev/devops.html. If you find any bugs or
>>>> gaps in documentation, please feel free to file bugs to
>>>> https://launchpad.net/fuel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Igor Shishkin <ishishkin at mirantis.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> along with building your own ISO following instructions [1], you can
>>>>> always download nightly build [2] and run it, by using virtualbox scripts
>>>>> [3], for example.
>>>>>
>>>>> For your conveniency, you can see a build status table on CI [4].
>>>>> First tab now refers to pre-5.1 builds, and second - to master builds.
>>>>> BVT columns stands for Build Verification Test, which is essentially
>>>>> full HA deploy deployment test.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently pre-5.1 and master builds are actually built from same
>>>>> master branch. As soon as we call for Hard Code Freeze, pre-5.1 builds will
>>>>> be reconfigured to use stable/5.1 branch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> http://docs.mirantis.com/fuel-dev/develop/env.html#building-the-fuel-iso
>>>>> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel#Nightly_builds
>>>>> [3] https://github.com/stackforge/fuel-main/tree/master/virtualbox
>>>>> [4] https://fuel-jenkins.mirantis.com/view/ISO/
>>>>> --
>>>>> Igor Shishkin
>>>>> DevOps
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Fuel Library Tech Lead,
>>>> Mirantis, Inc.
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