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.)