We already have hourly snapshots of the stable master though: https://toolserver.org/~krinkle/mwSnapshots/#!/mediawiki-core/master
(and it includes release branches, feature branches and wmf branches). That could be expanded to keep old version (right now it only keeps the latest one). -- KJrinkle On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@everybody.org>wrote: > 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.) > > -- > http://hexmode.com/ > > Human evil is not a problem. It is a mystery. It cannot be solved. > -- When Atheism Becomes Religion, Chris Hedges > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
