[Libosinfo] [PATCH 2/5] Add an optional 'is-continuous-snapshot' tag to OS entries

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:01:16PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:52:54PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> >> Applications can use this to determine if an OS is just a snapshot and
>> >> not an actual released product yet. For example, gnome-continuous images
>> >> for development snapshots of GNOME and nightly build ISOs of Fedora etc.
>> >
>> > Hmm, hang on, this is getting confusing now.
>> >
>> > My understanding was that the GNOME continuous images were officially
>> > released products, not development pre-release snapshots.
>>
>> I think it was the other way around. :)
>>
>> * pre-release examples: Fedora X alpha/beta and GNOME 3.9.91/2 ISOs.
>> * continuous snapshot examples: Fedora nightly ISOs and GNOME continuous images.
>>
>> So yeah, they are different and now we have already code/api that
>> differentiates both.
>
> That's not the way I was imagining it though ! When I read 'continuous'
> I was believing that reflected a GNU Arch/Gentoo style continuous rolling
> release. The idea is that before now the 'release-date' would implicitly
> tell you when an OS was "GA" ready, but that isn';t availble for rolling
> releases, hence the 'is-continuous' tag would help you there. The
> classification you've described though means we still have the hole
> around the Arch/Gentoo rolling release model.

Sorry I don't understand the difference with gnome-continuous case.
Could you please point it out for me?

> I think perhaps we've been looking at this wrong and what we really should
> have is an enum 'status' field, rather than multiple booleans
>
>   <status>snapshot|prerelease|released</status>
>
> Where
>
>  snapshot == nightly builds / automated code snapshots
>  prerelease == formal alpha/beta/rc like releases
>  released == final cut releases

That is giving the same info to apps as the booleans. We got two
booleans for snapshot and prerelease and absence of both means a
'released' OS.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124