Is there any interest in having nightly snapshots of MediaWiki available?
I realize people could just use git, but this poses a problem for users
who are familiar with extracting, say, a .xip file, and making MediaWiki
work, but are stymied by the esoteric nature of git.
This would be similar to Mozilla's nightlies:
(
http://nightly.mozilla.org/) and may also be a stepping stone for
people to get into development, or at least patch submission.
This all came up because I had the chance to provide a snapshot to help
solve a problem in 1.19
(
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/40011, shortened:
http://hexm.de/kt).
I used the make-release script
(
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/make-release/,
shortened:
http://hexm.de/ku) and put the snapshot up at
http://mah.everybody.org/snapshots/.
I'm willing to set this up to run on
wmflabs.org or on my own server if
there is interest. This may also be a good way to measure the "need"
for a point release -- for example, if the nightly starts including
fixes for annoying bugs that affect a lot of people, then a point
release is probably needed. (I'm looking at you, Bug #24985.)
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