Ubuntu Daily and intermediate revision packages (downstream update)

[arif-ali]

Hi folks,

We have been working in the background to work on some automation. We have finally got this working effectively to publish daily builds of packages for Ubuntu, in the same versioning and naming scheme as what is available in the Ubuntu archive. These are now available in a PPA [1] for testing purposes. The upstream repo is sync'd into Launchpad regularly (~6 hours). If there are new commits, and there has not been any builds in 24 hours, then a new build will start, and hence be available; or the next build will happen at the 24th hour from a previous build time.

This not only helps people to test new features as commits are merged, but also helps with Ubuntu downstream releases, and hence see the problem quicker, and not at release time.

In the same way, we build intermediate releases of sos into [2], so that anyone can use a release ready build in any way people want or need. On a dowsntream level at the moment, we release a new version every 6 months into Ubuntu, so this can help those people who'd rather have a release ready package to use for support purposes.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~sosreport/+archive/ubuntu/daily
[2] https://launchpad.net/~sosreport/+archive/ubuntu/release

[TurboTurtle]

Fantastic work!