Beta version

There is a beta version of the bot at @world_times_bot.

This version can have enabled new features not yet ready to be used in production. It may also be updated more frequently than the production version and will receive updates before the production version too.

The drawbacks are that it can be less stable, it might fail more often, and will usually be slower than the production version (as it has less resources assigned to it).

Except for the differences noted above, both bots behaves in the same way, so use the one that best fits you.

Technical information

The beta version runs on the develop branch of the repository, and the production version on the master branch.

Usually, features are developed in separate branches created from develop and are merged back to develop when finished and tested. When one or more feature branches have been merged, a release will be created which merges the code on develop to master.

Using this work-flow, develop branch should be more or less stable and not differ too much from the master branch.

Please, note that the bot do not automatically update when new commits are pushed to the branch. A bot administrator must issue a command telling the bot to update itself. So there is the possibility that the bot is not running on the latest commit of the branch.

You can check the running version of the bot using the /version command on it.

Please, contact support if you would like the beta bot to be updated when it is not running the latest version. The production bot update policy is decided by the bot administrators, so please, do not ask to update it.