[Ovmsdev] Fwd: [openvehicles/Open-Vehicle-Monitoring-System-3] 29e333: Issue #36: Add support for ota/tag in config

[Michael Balzer]

"alpha" / "beta" imply some underlying development & release plan, i.e. a list of features to be reached for the "release" version.

"stable" and "nightly" are also used, but "nightly" implies a fixed schedule -- I'd rather have the option to update manually several times a day --, and
"stable" implies some sort of quality check / warranty, which we also cannot provide.

So I think "main" and "edge" are appropriate.

Regards,
Michael


Am 16.04.2018 um 03:46 schrieb Mark Webb-Johnson:
> Another point perhaps missed is that these are really release tags, not necessarily developer release stages. So, for example, say we were working on a branch
> with a major re-write called v4.x, we could create a ‘v4x’ branch (or whatever) and release ota updates to it. Modules subscribing to that tag would get those
> updates.
>
> I guess we could address that with v3-beta, v3-alpha, v4-alpha, etc.
>
> Regards, Mark
>
>> On 16 Apr 2018, at 9:40 AM, Mark Webb-Johnson <mark at webb-johnson.net <mailto:mark at webb-johnson.net>> wrote:
>>
>> The original idea was to have these as release tags that users could subscribe to. The factory firmware we have has everyone as ‘main’, so that one is hard
>> to change.
>>
>> I did consider ‘alpha’, but it just looked strange to me.
>>
>> The idea is that ‘edge’ will be an automated (at least) nightly build.
>>
>> I think there is room for one more like Tesla’s ‘early access program’ (pre-release candidates that should be stable but have not had widescale testing). So,
>> my overall suggestion is for something like:
>>
>>   * main
>>   * eap
>>   * edge
>>
>>
>> Steve’s alternative would be:
>>
>>   * main
>>   * beta
>>   * alpha
>>
>>
>> Other than ‘main’, these are simple to change. Happy to go with the consensus...
>>
>> Regards, Mark.
>>
>>> On 16 Apr 2018, at 9:26 AM, Stephen Casner <casner at acm.org <mailto:casner at acm.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:
>>>> From now on, I’m going to be maintaining two tags for the production
>>>> ota server api.openvehicles.com <http://api.openvehicles.com/> <http://api.openvehicles.com/>. These
>>>> are:
>>>>
>>>> main: for stable releases
>>>> edge: for bleeding edge developer releases
>>>
>>> Why not the "standard" terms release (or stable), beta, alpha?
>>>
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