It's hard to find the current stable version of Saltstack

[JensRantil]

Problem: It's hard to find the current stable version of Saltstack.

Background: I've found nothing on:

• http://saltstack.com/
• http://saltstack.com/community/
• http://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/

Finally I found it 4 clicks later on https://pypi.python.org/pypi/salt. I think. But is that the stable version or a beta? Who knows! ;)

Solution: Make it more clear on initial page what the latest stable version is and preferably also a sentence on beta, release candidates, alphas etc.

[rallytime]

Thanks for the feedback - we should be able to make that more clear.

ping @jacobhammons

[terminalmage]

Yeah, we used to have this in a persistent location on docs.saltstack.com, but this is no longer present after our docs redesign. Should be a very easy thing to correct.

[badele]

I confirm the @JensRantil remark,

I don't know if i'm off topic, for me, i have pratically the same problem, i try use the good version for use proxmox provider.

• In the default salt version (2015.5.3) we have the the problem with SSL verification => salt-cloud unable to create proxmox profile #25652
• In the latest pre-release (v2015.8.0rc3), i have a problem with the msgpack => Salt-Master 2015.5.5-1 on Scientific Linux 6 fails loading some primitive pillars from YAML #26705

Too bad, i think the saltstack is the good tools, I have not had time to test salt, because, i have lost time for find the good version and debugging the problems for specific version, each version fix a problem, but not all :)

I know the proxmox provider is developed by the salt community and that is not supported by the saltstack compagny.

But i think a good idea for the (state, module, provider etc ...) we know if that run with a special version ( I know it's difficult that implement the unit tests for the providers )

I am eager to test salt with proxmox and can be subsequently contribute to salt.

Edit: For the second point, i have resolved the problem with this path #26714 thank @jfindlay :) In Conclusion, now i can use the v2015.8.0rc3 with @jfindlay path. I can try the proxmox provider :)

[DanyC97]

@badele @JensRantil from the main page http://saltstack.com/ if you click on Software -> Documentation you do get to the latest page which shows on the right hand side the last 2 stable releases + the develop (bleeding) version (not released)

Isn't that enough ?

[JensRantil]

@DanyC97 Wouldn't it make sense to also have it under "Software -> Downloads"? Also, the page should probably also refer to the PIP version, right?

Isn't that enough ?

I'm sorry, but I would never have found those versions in the top right corner of the page unless I looked for them a lot. I still think it needs a more explicit place.

[DanyC97]

@JensRantil fair points, no need to say sorry ;)

[jacobhammons]

@JensRantil The current stable release is now listed on https://repo.saltstack.com/ and https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/

If you agree that this fixes the issue please close. Thanks!

[rallytime]

Several improvements have been made to make this more obvious, as @jacobhammons stated above. As such, I'm going to close this. If a more specific example of where this could be improved is provided, we can certainly re-open this. Thanks!