asterisk users - Jan 2008 - Nightly tarballs, would you use them?

Greetings,

During the past week, there have been some requests for nightly tarballs to help
making testing new Asterisk code easier.  There was some debate as to whether
they would be useful.  The reason that they may not be useful is because you can
get equivalent access to new code just by accessing the subversion repository
directly.  However, for one reason or another, some people would prefer to have
a tarball.

If this was available, would you be interested in it?

If you just want to say "yes or no" for the sake of the poll, fell
free to
respond to me off-list.  However, also fell free to respond here if you have
more verbose comments on the topic that you would like to share.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.

Russell Bryant wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> During the past week, there have been some requests for nightly
> tarballs to help making testing new Asterisk code easier.  There was
> some debate as to whether they would be useful.  The reason that they
> may not be useful is  because you can get equivalent access to new
> code just by accessing the subversion repository directly.  However,
> for one reason or another, some people would prefer to have a tarball.
> 
> If this was available, would you be interested in it?
On occasion, yes. 

I think nightly tarballs could be quite useful.  Whilst it's easy to
check out from subversion directly, a nightly tarball provides a
specific point of reference which can be helpful when trying to
identify a problem.  If we had a specific problem we were trying to
fix, I would very likely grab the latest tarball and try it out. 



/Per Jessen, Z?rich

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I'd be even more likely to use nightly (or other periodic snapshot,
even weekly) .deb packages. Because then I could use APT to notify me
and manage them. Especially if they included a changelog (which APT
reports), even if that changelog were only names of files/modules
touched since the last one.


On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 12:00 -0600,
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> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:21:54 -0600
> From: Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com>
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Nightly tarballs, would you use them?
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> Greetings,
> 
> During the past week, there have been some requests for nightly
> tarballs to help
> making testing new Asterisk code easier.  There was some debate as to
> whether
> they would be useful.  The reason that they may not be useful is
> because you can
> get equivalent access to new code just by accessing the subversion
> repository
> directly.  However, for one reason or another, some people would
> prefer to have
> a tarball.
> 
> If this was available, would you be interested in it?
> 
> If you just want to say "yes or no" for the sake of the poll,
fell
> free to
> respond to me off-list.  However, also fell free to respond here if
> you have
> more verbose comments on the topic that you would like to share.
> 
> -- 
> Russell Bryant
-- 

(C) Matthew Rubenstein