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As I’m sure you’re familiar with open source projects (duh), users typically have a choice as to whether they want to download various types of releases: nightly, milestone/beta/release candidate, or official releases. Currently, you have the latter two. Is there any chance you could open up nightly/development builds to those of us who’d like to stay as up-to-date as possible? I don’t think you need to maintain nightly builds for any serious length of time (maybe a week or two), but I’m sure that a lot of us would like to get updates to some of our problems sooner than the official milestone releases. This might also give you the opportunity to fix more bugs prior to your milestone releases (as if you don’t have enough work to do already :-P).
This is just an idea and I know I wouldn’t update everyday or anything, but I’d definitely consider doing it once a week.
Is there any chance you could open up nightly/development builds to those of us who’d like to stay as up-to-date as possible?
Not likely, no matter how often we warn users, they still adopt our beta releases as production tools and then get fairly irate when something destructive happens or MyEclipse mangles their project. We are giving our users a 50/50 solution by using the Milestone approach like Eclipse does, but I do not think we will go further than this, there is no huge advantage to letting you guys download broken code and have it core dump on you.
but I’m sure that a lot of us would like to get updates to some of our problems sooner than the official milestone releases.
We understand the situation all to well, but have to draw the line in the sand somewhere. You are assuming having nightlies would make your life easier, but you don’t think of the very real case that while we might fix the UML bug currently making you nuts, we could very easily introduce a bug where saving a UML diagram erases all the classes associated with it… then you’ll ask us for Hourly snapshots to fix THAT bug, and we’ll probably throw our hands up in the air, quite the business all together and open a sandwich making shop… you don’t want that do you?
