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author | Sandra McCann <samccann@redhat.com> | 2020-02-17 16:12:45 -0500 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-02-17 15:12:45 -0600 |
commit | 79ad190f71b75db47b748b07b28e878f4a14976f (patch) | |
tree | 608fed33ce75362fa51f2a662ee9175cd96f153d /docs | |
parent | 9895e18e24237587bc588012bd0d6915a9f4685e (diff) | |
download | ansible-79ad190f71b75db47b748b07b28e878f4a14976f.tar.gz |
[backport][2.9]Add note that devel branch should not be used in real environments (#… (#67494)
* Add note that devel branch should not be used in real environments (#67483)
(cherry picked from commit 39fef58beaca3510ec4465f74071c736578ccbf1)
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diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/installation_guide/intro_installation.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/installation_guide/intro_installation.rst index 2f75842933..4e3beb0ed9 100644 --- a/docs/docsite/rst/installation_guide/intro_installation.rst +++ b/docs/docsite/rst/installation_guide/intro_installation.rst @@ -84,11 +84,12 @@ Which Ansible version to install is based on your particular needs. You can choo * Install the latest release with your OS package manager (for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (TM), CentOS, Fedora, Debian, or Ubuntu). * Install with ``pip`` (the Python package manager). -* Install from source to access the development (``devel``) version to use and test the latest features. +* Install from source to access the development (``devel``) version to develop or test the latest features. +.. note:: + + You should only run Ansible from ``devel`` if you are actively developing content for Ansible. This is a rapidly changing source of code and can become unstable at any point. -Because Ansible runs so easily from source and does not require any installation of software on remote -machines, many users will actually track the development version. Ansible creates new releases two to three times a year. Due to this short release cycle, minor bugs will generally be fixed in the next release versus maintaining backports on the stable branch. @@ -348,13 +349,13 @@ If you wish to install Ansible globally, run the following commands:: Running Ansible from source (devel) ----------------------------------- +.. note:: + + You should only run Ansible from ``devel`` if you are actively developing content for Ansible. This is a rapidly changing source of code and can become unstable at any point. + Ansible is easy to run from source. You do not need ``root`` permissions to use it and there is no software to actually install. No daemons -or database setup are required. Because of this, many users in our community use the -development version of Ansible all of the time so they can take advantage of new features -when they are implemented and easily contribute to the project. Because there is -nothing to install, following the development version is significantly easier than most -open source projects. +or database setup are required. .. note:: |