Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> Currently, www.mozilla.org indeed encourages the use of milestones and
> makes nightly build appear scary. Rather than asking potential users
> (who might also be potential contributors!) take a hike, the importance
> of milestones could be downplayed and links could be made to good
> nightlies.
I absolutely agree with this. I don't have time to do regular
installations of nightlies, but I do use debian where upgrades of most
things are as simple as apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. If
packages were made for nightlies (which I imagine they would be if the
importance of milestones was downplayed enough) I could be a much better
tester.
As it is, when I find a bug my only resort is to search for closed bugs
as well as open ones (looking for a fix since M18) and add a note
explaining that I'm filing the bug as UNCONFIRMED only because my build
is old.
I'd much rather be using a nightly, but it is certainly harder work to
do so, in my situation. The lack of "officially recognized" good
nightlies (other than the once-in-a-blue-moon milestones) is an
additional hindrance.
I wonder if replacing the link to M18 on http://www.mozilla.org/ with a
link to a "best recent build" (updated weekly, but allowed to stay the
same on an update just in case every build of that week has regressed
since the last "best" one) would be a low-maintenance way to deal with
this. The buildbar already has information about the last week's worth
of builds, so it shouldn't be much work to identify the best and update
the link.
Stuart.
