I just noticed that nightly builds of the stable branches are running 
with skipTests.

(1) Are these builds used to create the nightly downloads?

(2) If so, does this mean that we are allowing the world to download 
nightly release artifacts created by builds with failing unit tests? It 
looks like the nightly builds fail only on compile errors.

This is what they do:

geoserver-2.0.x-nightly:
mvn -DskipTests -P release,communityRelease clean install

geotools-2.6.x-nightly:
/opt/actual/apache-maven-2.1.0/bin/mvn -U deploy -P deploy.opengeo 
-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dtest.maxHeapSize=256M -Dall -DskipTests

Furthermore, I noticed while debugging a nightly-built jar that 
timestamps are mixed, indicating that GeoTools was built without "clean".

Please tell me that I misunderstand this. Is Hudson doing something 
clever that I do not comprehend?

I would very much prefer all nightly release artifacts to be built with 
"clean install" and without test skipping, on stable and trunk. This is 
the bare minimum quality standard my organisation requires for our 
GeoServer trunk build, in which any unit test failure prevents an 
artifact update:
https://cgsrv1.arrc.csiro.au/swrepo/GeoServerTrunk/latest/
http://geobuilder.arrc.csiro.au/geoserver/waterfall
http://geobuilder.arrc.csiro.au/geoserver/one_line_per_build

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au>
Software Engineer, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia

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