[digiKam-users] Nightly builds / docker image?

[Andrey Goreev]

You can also try compiling digikam yourself.
I did it on Ubuntu about a month ago: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/compile-latest-digikam-on-ubuntu-18-04/9882
Instead of the git sources you would need to download the latest stable which is 5.9.0

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From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> On Behalf Of Sky Diver
Sent: December 13, 2018 9:55 AM
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Nightly builds / docker image?

@Simon: Maik fixed a bug I reported a while back and I was interested in seeing it in action.
That's how I got into the pre-release snapshots, etc.
I do run the snapshots on my production data, but also do backup in advance.

Having 5.6.0 as the latest official version on Ubuntu, I recently started using the 5.9.0 stable snapshot.

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Regarding the binaries urls, I'm not sure I understand the diff between unstable and pre-release.
All pre-releases are considered unstable, so I don't see the point in keeping older unstable pre-release (e.g. 6.0.0-beta2) once a new one gets out of the oven (e.g. 6.0.0-beta3)?


On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 4:35 PM Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For production?! The problem with weekly snapshots is that they are 
> just
> that: snapshots. This means the exact commit is not specially chosen, 
> so the chance for brokenness is much higher than on actual releases. 
> If you do use them in production, make sure to have a tight backup 
> schedule (and proven that restoring works). As for notification: Setup 
> any weekly reminder and you're set.
>
> On 13/12/2018 15:27, Sky Diver wrote:
> > Thanks Andrey, that would be interesting to explore.
> >
> > Simon, I already subscribed to the RSS feed a few days ago, but the 
> > latest message over there is about the Release of 6.0.0-beta2.
> > Indeed, this is too infrequent IMO.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:56 PM Simon Frei <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/
> >>
> >> If you want to be notified about new (pre-)releases you can 
> >> subscribe to the news RSS - there will be some other stuff too on it, but infrequently.
> >>
> >> On 13/12/2018 14:36, Sky Diver wrote:
> >>> Thanks Gilles.
> >>>
> >>> I understand what you mean regarding docker - it certainly sounds 
> >>> like a hassle to maintain.
> >>>
> >>> I already saw the page you refer to, but I was wondering if 
> >>> there's something more up-to-date (didn't know it's being build on 
> >>> a weekly basis).
> >>>
> >>> I find it weird that the same version tag (e.g. 6.0.0-beta3) is 
> >>> being used for different builds.
> >>> E.g.: The version base of my AppImage is
> >>> digikam-6.0.0-beta3-20181202T170307 while the latest version is 
> >>> digikam-6.0.0-beta3-20181208T111552.
> >>> I guess the point is that the beta version is a bugfix accumulator.
> >>>
> >>> Is there some sort of "Check for Updates" mechanism (myabe even an 
> >>> RSS
> >>> feed) that would somehow notify of new beta releases?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:18 AM Gilles Caulier 
> >>> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Le jeu. 13 déc. 2018 à 09:08, SkyDiver <skydivergm at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Are there any AppImage nightly builds to help peeping into 
> >>>>> bleeding-edge updates?
> >>>> There are, the weekly build AppImage here :
> >>>>
> >>>> https://files.kde.org/digikam/
> >>>>
> >>>>> Alternatively, is there any docker image to run?
> >>>>> Alternatively, is there any docker image for building from source code?
> >>>> No docker. AppImage take already a lots of time to maintain.
> >>>>
> >>>> Gilles Caulier
> >>
>