Introduce page with release info

[keunes]

A few users (including me) would like some more information about the rolling out of updates in the different channels. I myself am in the 'stable' channel and have not yet received an update notification. In order for people to check and avoid having to have a forum thread with every major update, it would be nice to:

• have a page (say, www.nextcloud.com/update) where updating information is published
• there, make available:
  • the versions available in the different channels (from shoeper)
  • the roll-out percentage with each update ("Currently, this update is offered to xx % of the users")
• and possibly also:
  • a notification if roll-out is on hold due to a found bug
  • a rough estimation for the roll-out, such as amount of batches and planned/expected time ("There will be xx stages over the next yy weeks") (from Thor)
  • a graph showing downloads a day, updated, downloading and waiting users in the queue... (from Jove)
• link to that page from the update section in nextcloud server (from janvlug)

[MariusBluem]

We should improve https://nextcloud.com/release-channels for solving that ;)

[jospoortvliet]

Yeah, very good idea. @keunes any chance you have a look at the release channels page and perhaps work some variables magic in there?

If we add some variables to https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud.com/blob/master/strings.php we could have those show on the release channels page.. ?

[keunes]

Hi @jospoortvliet I'd be happy to but I'm merely a translator for Nextcloud, and someone using Nextcloud for home-sharing with a wish for more info on the upgrade process 🙂. In other words: my HTML and CSS skills are limited to, lets say, well, they're limited ^^ (let alone PHP variables).

I'm afraid I don't have the time to learn to do the work required, at the moment. So if anyone else would be happy to take that on, that'd be great :)

[jospoortvliet]

Ok, can do. With more thinking I believe the problem will be to keep it up to date: if we do that manually it will go outdated all the time :(

Would be best if we could get the info directly from the updater server somehow. But that'd be way beyond my PHP fu...

[janvlug]

Did you know about the existence of this page: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/wiki/Maintenance-and-Release-Schedule

[Espina2]

@jospoortvliet if you have an API or a json file with all the info, its not that difficult to do. :)

[jospoortvliet]

@Espina2 hmmmmmm, we don't have it right now I think, though of course the update server can be queried as that is how the nextcloud servers know if there's a new version ;-) Not sure how complicated it is...

[melroy89]

I like this idea very much and especially since 12 is not fully rolled out, it's confusing for me, since the download page says that 12.0.2 is stable, but the built-in updater won't do anything. By giving more information about the status helps me ( and others) to understand