Proposal: Integrate preview releases in our roadmap/release schedule

[tomkerkhove]

I'd like to propose to integrate a single preview releases in our roadmap/release schedule 1/1.5mo before every official release that we are planning.

This would allow us to:

• Iron out any (obvious) bugs that we have but are not caught by our e2e tests
• Leverage more stable releases because it was already tested out by the community
• Provide a simpler way to test upcoming release,s without having to rely on the main image
• Get feedback faster

However, it should come with the following caveats:

• It should not introduce (too much) overhead for us (for example, no dedicated doc version?)
• It does not come with urgent support nor with hotfixes

[tomkerkhove]

Any thoughts @kedacore/keda-maintainers?

[JorTurFer]

I think that we can do it, but I'd like to update the docs to reflect that preview/latest release. For example, the webhook changes required the documentation and we should provide it easily if we want to release previews.

[tomkerkhove]

And what is your concern with our current scenario? Because end-users can already read them? Is it because it does not explicitly say "preview"?

[JorTurFer]

Currently, we don't have any button to access to unreleased version. If any user wants to check something not released yet in the docs, they need to manually write the next version in the browser bar, which isn't intuitive IMO.

There is also another problem with links when you manually introduce the not released version because the menu still points to latest released version:

If we release preview versions, I'd like to have something more user-friendly to browse those features. For example, ArgoCD documentation has an option in the version selector for that and it's so much user-friendly because they can select it just clicking

[tomkerkhove]

Oh I thought we had an "unreleased" or "in development" version, I agree!

[zroubalik]

Oh I thought we had an "unreleased" or "in development" version, I agree!

I like this approach, to not name it latest but to "unreleased" or "in development".