Hi,
With the current move to the v2 of the IPT and the very fast development of the last few weeks, I think it could be great to provide development snapshots (similar to the one Tim uploaded a few days ago) on a regular and very frequent basis.
For example, I've reported a bug 2 days ago that is supposed to be fixed, and I'd like to re-test this and investigate deeper the IPT (hat bug make me stuck at the beginning), so I could follow the development day after day and provide immediate feedback to the development team. I think this transparency and rapid feedback mechanism is important if we want a very fast development rate and at the same time keep a good stability. It could also lead to a better communication between IPT developers and end users (for example to keep them aware of which features/bugs should be on the top-priority list).
I see 3 ways to make these builds for "faster feedback" possible :
1) The GBIF manually creates "ipt-snapshot.war" on a regular basis (i.e. weekly) 2) Putting an automatic mechanism to create these builds, the frequence could so be increased (nightly builds). 3) Update (and detail) the documentation of the build process on the wiki (available for v1). The java build process/ build tools and the quirks that can be encountered at that step can be, to say the least, quite intimidating for someone who isn't a Java developer.
What do you think of this ?
Thanks, Nicolas.