nightly builds are not for the consuming public but for testers who's job it is to bang away on the application and try to break it. so they just download an run the build. They probably are not even developers, just testers
Ean Schuessler sent the following on 2/5/2010 1:39 PM: > Adam Heath wrote: >> I vote no for this, until there are more test cases. Ofbiz is still >> buggy, with old functionality being broken, or new functionality not >> even being tested. >> > I really do agree. It jumped out at me recently that we don't have a > download link for a "known to be working" build that has been thoroughly > tested by humans. If someone checks something in to 09.04 that breaks > behavior but doesn't show up in the test suite then a lot of people may > get a bad first impression of our software. It seems like some Selenium > tests are the fastest way to get some better guarantees around this. > Right now I'm just not super confident that the latest release will > always be working (though it should be). >
