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    Stable vs. latest risk assessment

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    • xerioX Offline
      xerio
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      Re: Stable channel update date

      Hi, is the "latest" channel tested or more of a beta? ...or to ask differently: is it safe to assume "latest" will not take down a productive server farm, or would we have to stay on stable to get maximum protection from heart attacks? 😉

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      • olivierlambertO Offline
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
        last edited by olivierlambert

        Hi,

        When using XOA, every release will be tested extensively. The main different is that stable got 1 extra month of feedback from around 30% of our total number of users.

        So no, latest isn't a beta at all. A beta would be for example the master branch on the sources (since there's no release in there, it's a kind of perpetual beta).

        It's an extra safety in case something slipped through our testing, because you have an extra month to realize there's a problem in some very specific cases. It's also useful for us when we want to debug a recent issue, we can tell the user to go back and forth to the 2 channels, to see if there's a diff.

        Finally, at Vates, for our own production infrastructure: we rely on latest, because we want to immediately test the new features 🙂

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          Andrew Top contributor @xerio
          last edited by

          @xerio For XOA or XOCE/Source Master?

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          • xerioX Offline
            xerio
            last edited by

            In XOA Enterprise XOA > Updates > Release channels

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            • olivierlambertO Offline
              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
              last edited by olivierlambert

              Hi,

              When using XOA, every release will be tested extensively. The main different is that stable got 1 extra month of feedback from around 30% of our total number of users.

              So no, latest isn't a beta at all. A beta would be for example the master branch on the sources (since there's no release in there, it's a kind of perpetual beta).

              It's an extra safety in case something slipped through our testing, because you have an extra month to realize there's a problem in some very specific cases. It's also useful for us when we want to debug a recent issue, we can tell the user to go back and forth to the 2 channels, to see if there's a diff.

              Finally, at Vates, for our own production infrastructure: we rely on latest, because we want to immediately test the new features 🙂

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              • xerioX Offline
                xerio @olivierlambert
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                @olivierlambert Thanks Olivier, perfect explanation and also good that there is a way back by switching the channel. Will live the "latest" life from here on out 🤙

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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                  You are welcome!

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