I’ve just created a Release, having waited for the latest Packages to be collected from my TeamCity feed.
When I then subsequently view that Release, each Package says “Loading…” as if it’s re-loading the package from the TeamCity feed. If it’s already downloaded the Package, then why is it loading again?
At that point Octopus hasn’t downloaded any packages yet. That “Loading…” sign means that Octopus is trying to fetch the metadata from your package to populate that part of the page with the package’s release notes. See attached screenshot to know what I’m talking about.
Octopus will only start to actually download the package once the deployment starts.
Its fetching it from the package feed, which in your case is TeamCity. We do not store that info in memory because it really isn’t necessary in pretty much any case. On the contrary, some users even modify the package metadata after the package was created, so fetching always a fresh copy of just the metadata is handy for them.
Is this “Loading…” message on the release page preventing you from doing something else (like deploying)?It shouldn’t be stopping you from using the rest of Octopus.