Should we start building 1.7 binaries and ask people to test them? We might call it beta testing or even "early access builds" or somesuch. I don't really care about the name.
But there seems to be increased interest in 1.7 among our user base. TortoiseSVN is already providing binaries based on trunk code and we've already received useful feedback because of this. Note that this is entirely independent of creating a 1.7.x branch. I think that should still wait until we consider trunk to be RC quality. The overhead of using 1.7.x/STATUS is too much of a burden at this point. I could try to create binaries for OpenSUSE (on the opensuse buildservice) and Ubuntu (in a ppa). Related documention would of course contain warnings about using these binaries on production data. The idea is to make it easier for people to run 1.7 since we've rarely received test reports for our source code beta releases in the past. Would anyone be interested in helping out with creating binaries for other systems?
