Urgent request: Nightly builds of the 12.0 train for bug checking purposes?
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Kris Moore July 18, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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William Gryzbowski September 8, 2020 at 11:59 AM
We have 12.1 Nightlies which can be used for this purpose. It just needs to be done manually for now.
Stilez September 5, 2020 at 1:25 PM(edited)
Actually just a more findable link to the existing DL area would be enough, as it turns out these builds do exist.
All current, old, and development builds of TrueNAS Core, manual upgrade files,
and archived FreeNAS installers, can be found at download.freenas.org.
Warning: Development (nightly) builds are used for development testing only,
and may not be able to be upgraded to release versions. Do not use nightly builds
with important data or scenarios.
Would that be possible, added to the bottom of beta/release pages and related blog posts, and the main DL page? Perhaps in a "collapse" section? To make it easily findable but not headline grabbing?
Jurgen Segaert August 21, 2020 at 4:39 PM
It still shows the three update trains though.
FreeNAS-11.3-STABLE - Release Train for FreeNAS 11.3 [release]
TrueNAS-12.0-Nightlies - Nightly builds for TrueNAS 12. Development version, for testing only. [nightly]
TrueNAS-12.0-BETA - Beta builds for TrueNAS 12 [pre-release]
I do remember the drama from the past, but now the descriptions of the trains are quite clear. It's just that the nightly train seems stuck. I'd also like to see the real nightlies back, so this has my vote.
It will allow us volunteer testers to find any potential regressions early. There are several posts from in the forum stating how TrueNAS SCALE advanced faster than expected thanks to all the community testers and contributers, so why not have the nightlies turned on for TrueNAS CORE?
BTW: It's been requested a long time ago, to have an option to hide the development trains, see e.g. https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/39977
Stilez August 19, 2020 at 3:05 PM(edited)
But they could export a config and reimport into a clean install of 12-stable (if they trusted it!), or run a nightly in a VM or spare hardware for testing bug fixes, right?
As long as the issue is clear and people know what to do, and that it's purely for bug checking not live use on valuable data, it should be fine?
(The old mozilla UI warning "here there be dragons, it's dangerous" comes to mind!)
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Very similar to but with a specific reason - new issue raised to obtain renewed consideration.
For users trying to bugshoot the 12.0-BETA2-RC1-REL train, lack of nightlies is a real issue, because it means we can't check if issues said to be resolved, are in fact resolved, at an early stage. Anything I report against 12-BETA2 I can't check if it's truly cleared until RC1; anything I find new or turns out not to be properly fixed at RC1, I can't check its fix until 12-REL.
For bughunting and clearing confirmation purposes, is it possible to do nightly or at least bi-weekly builds of the 12.0-BETA2-RC1-REL train as well, so we can check these do in fact fix bugs that are reported, and don't introduce new ones?
No downside, good cause to hope for upside, lets community members play as much of a part as they can, and almost no ixStaff time/work needed (a few lines in a build script to tell it to build these as well?)