[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #51585: Make beta & RC releases available in Github

[WordPress Trac]

#51585: Make beta & RC releases available in Github
-----------------------------+------------------------------
 Reporter:  malthert         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
-----------------------------+------------------------------

Comment (by dd32):

 Replying to [comment:11 om4csaba]:
 > As a plugin developer, we are constantly running tests in CI against the
 upcoming releases. Both for the tagged pre-releases and the latest commit
 in the "main" (trunk) branch.
 >
 > Because the whole system is git-based, we clone every dependency in the
 CI and run the test. Currently, I manually search for the commit hash for
 pre-releases, but it will be way easier for us if the pre-release tags are
 in there.

 For automated testing, testing against trunk would be better IMHO, knowing
 it's broken in Beta1 isn't super useful IMHO if it was fixed the next day
 in trunk. Knowing that your plugin broke with trunk a month before Beta is
 also hugely beneficial to the core community, as bugs can be located
 faster, and realistically plugins shouldn't break that often. Yes, it
 means it's more likely to fail incorrectly, but that's a small price to
 pay.

 However, I would also suggest that using GIT/SVN to fetch pre-release
 releases is probably not ideal (although I understand part of your current
 workflow), I would suggest something like `wp core download
 --version=beta` would be better (unfortunately wp-cli only seems to
 support stable/nightlies right now, not beta/rc). But you could also do
 `wp core download https://wordpress.org/wordpress-5.8.2-RC1.zip`, or just
 replace your `git clone` with a `curl $url | unzip` command.

-- 
Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51585#comment:12>
WordPress Trac <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress publishing platform