Nightlies vs beta

[Torben Nielsen]

I'm running 9.3. I see two possible trains; Nightlies and Beta. What is the difference between the two trains?

I'm tried to post this in the noob section, but my post keeps disappearing and I don't even know why.

 

[dlavigne]

9.3-Nightlies is automated, twice a day, no human intervention involved, and therefore may or may not be in good shape depending on what is happening at those intervals. 9.3-BETA is updated manually and will become 9.3-STABLE after release and will have cherry-picked, carefully gated fixes go into it.

 

[DrKK]

For various definitions of "carefully gated".

(sorry, couldn't resist)

 

[D4nthr4x]

Your post probably got removed from the noob section because you are using the beta which noobs shouldn't be using because it isn't stable...

 

[jkh]

For various definitions of "carefully gated".

Hey! I put my finger into the air very carefully and test the wind for direction, speed, relative humidity and laminar flow over the ground. Then I say "oh what the hell, time to roll a BETA update!" and various things break. This will get better with -RELEASE, which is when we're actually going to branch the source repos and start putting QA into the decision loop on whether or not a change makes it into that update branch. Until then, it's a bit wild-west, I admit...