On Jan 31, 2012, at 11:59 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 1/31/2012 8:50 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> On Jan 30, 2012, at 4:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >>>> >>>> We don't release 'snapshots'... >>> >>> That doesn't mean early adopters don't seek out version control or >>> snapshots of the current state of software. I'm pretty sure you've >>> lived on the bleeding edge of one system package or another. >> >> Yep... It's called either 'svn update' or 'git pull' :) > > Which... doesn't correspond to a tarball. We have autobuilds working > in several places now, how difficult might it be to tar up a snapshot > during the post-buildconf phase of such a CI build? >
You mentioned 'seek out version control or snapshots'... I simply replied that we do provide what they seek. Again, I don't like the idea of snapshots: they are too easy to abuse and if the whole reason behind it is to "encourage" easier testing, then I would say that recent history indicates otherwise. We had several formally announced betas which were otherwise ignored, so expecting un-announced snapshots which carry no mark of stability *at all* to somehow change that seem ludicrous. People don't test betas but they will test snapshots? I just don't see it.
