![]() The recently introduced solution for muCommander involves building the nightly builds using a local virtual machine (with Jenkins) that pushes the artifacts to GitHub. Today, both our source code and our website are hosted on GitHub (and GitHub Pages) and while GitHub provides a place to store releases, it lacks a mechanism for storing nightly builds. However, the project no longer possesses a local machine that can be available all the time. It was then easy to publish them on the project’s website. Nightly builds, that were produced by Jenkins, used to be stored on a local virtual machine. Let’s look at the muCommander project, for example. Nightly builds are clearly useful for most projects, especially for software that is delivered as-a-service (SaaS) or standalone applications, however, it is not easy to find a free place to store them in a way that they could be easily consumed by users. As another example, users of mission-critical systems may wish to minimize the amount of changes in their system.īut I believe the reason for the lack of nightly builds for the majority of projects out there would rather be the lack of a proper place to store them. For instance, distributed infrastructure management systems may require relatively high amount of resources and complex installation process, and as such their users may want to avoid deploying unstable releases. In some projects, frequent packaging and deliverying of unstable releases may not be worthy due to various reasons. For developers, they may ease validating certain capabilities without the need to compile the code locally and then copy the artifacts elsewhere. For users, it is a way to get exposed to new features and be able to provide early feedback. The concept of not only building the project but also deliverying unstable releases that are derived from the development branch periodically, possibly on a daily basis in which case they are generally referred to as nightly builds, is often missing despite its potential benefit. However, many projects lack automatic releases. Various continuous integration tools such as Travis CI and Circle CI are available for this purpose. ![]() Some projects, like KubeVirt, also run integration tests automatically before merging a PR, while others, like oVirt, run them on demand or after the fact. Many projects run unit tests before merging pull requests (PRs). Why Nightly Builds?īuilding and testing your project automatically is a common practice nowadays. In this post I share a solution I have implemented for publishing nightly builds on GitHub.
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