# Suggestion for releasing and testing **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [June 2, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/suggestion-for-releasing-and-testing/6241 "2022-06-02T16:41:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JustSomeone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@JustSomeone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/JustSomeone)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/suggestion-for-releasing-and-testing/6241/1 "2022-06-02T16:41:45Z")
Hello everyone in my humble opinion it would be nice to have a post from the team so they give feedback about any issue they facing or if they want a help in certain area and this could be a pined post here and also share link to that post on all your social media sites so you get help from the community i am not rushing any thing but just want to increase the community involving into that which would increase the testing and also some would suggest other way to solve the same issue thanks again for your good work and hope one day i could help and have a nice day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/suggestion-for-releasing-and-testing/6241/2 "2022-06-02T19:39:40Z")
I think a lot of this is being covered over in the mattermost channels. There are a load of channels relating to Documentation, Design, Testing, etc, etc. You can find it all here: [https://chat.rockylinux.org/](https://chat.rockylinux.org/) ---
**Author:** ![JustSomeone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@JustSomeone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/JustSomeone)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/suggestion-for-releasing-and-testing/6241/3 "2022-06-02T20:03:54Z")
thanks @iwalker for the info but not sure if make post here and also a mention in the social media accounts would bring more help or not thanks again and have a nice day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/suggestion-for-releasing-and-testing/6241/4 "2022-06-03T06:08:14Z")
They already did 🙂 > **[Frequently Asked Questions | Rocky Linux](https://rockylinux.org/faq)** > > Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/8/896a96b36cbdbef5456ea1b13e73a18dad708a16.png) so the same as what I wrote above to join mattermost 🙂 I found that just by heading onto the faq section on the website itself for Rocky. You also have this on the website: > **[Contributing - Rocky Wiki](https://wiki.rockylinux.org/contributing/)** > > The wiki for the Rocky Linux project so there’s plenty of info to be able to find what you want 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JustSomeone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@JustSomeone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/JustSomeone)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/suggestion-for-releasing-and-testing/6241/5 "2022-06-03T13:56:03Z")
thanks again @iwalker not sure if my humble english would help me or not but will try matermost is good for discussion and chat and brainstorming but if i create post in this forum or create post on twitter so in twitter say we have y issue and if you could help check this forum for more details and then join our mattermost to participate in solving it and do all those agreement stuff same thing if i have open source code in github for example and have issue i would post in the forum or social networks so other could give a hand so people do not have to read the whole code to know if there issue or not so i just direct them to it not sure if that would good from marketing point of view but i look at it from community point of view > [@RHEL 9 Releasing very soon, Rocky 9 beta?](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rhel-9-releasing-very-soon-rocky-9-beta/5932/5): > > Whether or not Alma produces betas is irrelevant - We did build a lot of the beta package set ourselves, so it is making it easier for us to actually build for our own 9.0 GA. While we wanted to provide the 9.0 beta, we hit too many snags and were not able to. And now that we have resolved a lot of the alt arch issues we were having with our new build system, we are striving to finish up the rest of the package set and tooling to produce a usable release candidate. If Alma releases 9.0 next week, good for them. If they need extra time to get things right, also good for them. They know what they’re doing as much as we know what we’re doing as well with the limited amount of volunteer time we have. so a post that explain what those snags even if that snags cause the team is busy and has little time not sure if i miss understand you or miss understand anything else so sorry if i did and have a nice day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![label](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@label](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/label)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/suggestion-for-releasing-and-testing/6241/6 "2022-06-03T14:22:04Z")
Most of our communication is in our matter most or Libera IRC/Matrix if that suits your fancy instead. This all happens on our development channel. In fact, we have an etherpad as we work through the issues so everyone can see what we’re dealing with in real time and provide assistance or ideas if possible. I’ll try to summarize what we’ve ran into: the issues we’ve ran into are specifically container and architecture related. What I mean is our new build system relies on kube containers where we run the rpm build process in them (in particular, mock). Adding in s390x and ppc to the mix for kubernetes hasn’t been particularly easy. We also get random build failures from time to time. Some really are random, and some are legitimate. But regardless of what they are, we track them in an etherpad for anyone to help dive in so it’s not just my team working through it. Next steps is to finish up those builds, finish the repo compositions, and then we can produce an RC for the testing team and general public. I can understand that it looks quiet from the outside. Not everyone is going to join MM, IRC, or Matrix to see what’s actually happening and would much prefer something face first on the website or in a blog of some sort. And that’s totally reasonable! Since we’ve been focused on getting 9 going whilst also dealing with our own daily lives outside of the project, it’s hard to consider or think about also posting on the forums saying “hey help us, anyone is welcome” - it’s the last thing to cross our minds generally since we’ve been hyper-focused as much as we can through our volunteer time to get this out for our community. I think as a team and as a project we want to come up with a better way to bridge those gaps. I’m just not sure how we want to approach it yet. ---
**Author:** ![JustSomeone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@JustSomeone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/JustSomeone)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/suggestion-for-releasing-and-testing/6241/7 "2022-06-03T18:20:15Z")
@label i got your point and wish you and the whole team the best and hope one day i got the knowledge to help 🙂 thanks again @iwalker and @label and have a nice day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 4:46am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/suggestion-for-releasing-and-testing/6241/8 "2023-08-24T04:46:46Z")
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