[digiKam-users] Nightly builds / docker image?

Simon Frei freisim93 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 17:39:20 GMT 2018


Sounds good, just one nitpick: There's also tarballs for the
pre-releases, that's probably why the original said "this includes".

On 13/12/2018 18:05, Pat David wrote:
> Simon - how does this look?
>
> ---
> ### Pre-Releases
>
> These are betas and release-candidates provided by the team for testing.
>
> These should be more stable than weekly snapshots and testing will
> help to ready them for release.
> They are provided as a Linux AppImage, macOS package, and Windows
> installer.
>
> [Download the latest pre-release
> here](https://download.kde.org/unstable/digikam/)
>
>
> ### Weekly Snapshots
>
> These are compiled weekly versions provided by the team for testing
> purposes only.
>
> This is the easiest way to try the current implementation that hasn't
> been released yet.
> This includes a universal Linux AppImage, macOS package, and Windows
> installer.
>
> [Download the latest weekly snapshots
> here](https://files.kde.org/digikam/).
>
> ---
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:18 AM Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com
> <mailto:freisim93 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Agree with dropping "Bundles". And I'd just link to
>     https://download.kde.org/unstable/digikam/ as below - no need to
>     be fancy for pre-releases in my opinion.
>
>     On 13/12/2018 16:08, Pat David wrote:
>>     Easy peasy!
>>
>>     I can change "Pre-Release Bundles" to "Weekly Snapshot Bundles"
>>     easily.  One question though - should we drop the term "Bundles"
>>     and just call it "Weekly Snapshots"?
>>
>>     When you say have links to actual pre-releases - do you mean to
>>     link the binaries directly, or just a link to the directory with
>>     the files available?
>>
>>     Also - Gilles: are you ok with these types of changes to the site?
>>
>>     On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:00 AM Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:freisim93 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Thanks Pat - that's just the tiny kind of thing where I
>>         didn't think about getting help ;)
>>         I was thinking of renaming the current "Pre-Release Bundles"
>>         section to "Weekly Snapshot Bundles" and under "Pre-Release
>>         Bundles" have a link to the actual pre-releases, with a less
>>         strong warning about using them.
>>
>>         On 13/12/2018 15:32, Pat David wrote:
>>>
>>>         On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 7:56 AM Simon Frei
>>>         <freisim93 at gmail.com <mailto:freisim93 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             That's actually something that could be improved in the
>>>             download section
>>>             of the website:
>>>             There are stable releases:
>>>             https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/,
>>>             pre-releases (betas, RCs):
>>>             https://download.kde.org/unstable/digikam/
>>>             and weekly snapshots: https://files.kde.org/digikam/
>>>
>>>
>>>         I'm available to help fix or improve anything here - was
>>>         there something in particular you were thinking of?
>>>         Stable is already listed, as are weekly snapshots.  The
>>>         beta/RC's are usually listed as part of the news post
>>>         announcing them.
>>>
>>>         My guess is _most_ folks are looking for a stable release. 
>>>         Some may look at an RC/beta, and very few are looking for
>>>         weekly snapshots?  (This is just a guess based on past
>>>         experience, nothing solid).
>>
>>
>>
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