Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
So what about the following counterargument: "even if nightly builds were made available, how can we be sure that enough people are using them to sufficiently test them?" OK, sure, if not many people are using the nightly builds, then there wouldn't be much benefit. But it does seem to work out fine for a lot of projects. And with a proper SCM set up which you commit to daily, there's virtually no work on your part. You just commit, and everyone else can download and compile.
I believe that people downloading half-baked works in progress and then finding problems I already know about and am fixing is probably not more productive.