Re: Downloading a build from buildbot

[PhilipNienhuis]

Pantxo wrote
> Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:37 AM Christian Frick
>> <
> 
>> Christian.Frick@
> 
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I’d like to test the newest (not yet stable) changes of Octave for
>>> Windows and therefore try to download the newest builds from
>>> http://buildbot.octave.org:8010.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I was not able to find any download link in e.g.
>>> http://buildbot.octave.org:8010/#/builders/14/builds/489. Is this even
>>> supported? If yes, what do I have to do? Do I have to be logged in?
>>>
>>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At Octconf 2018, we have discussed wether it would be beneficial to make
> the
> latest builds for Windows available for testers, and no one firmly
> opposed.   
> IIRC, the main argument against this idea was that we didn't want to let
> people think they can use those unstable builds for production. Putting
> the
> download link, accompanied with a bold warning ( "Testers only!"),  in the
> "Get Involved" tab of the Octave web site is probably enough to solve this
> issue.
> 
> Recently, on the bug tracker, I saw a developer sharing (through his
> private
> dropbox account) his latest mxe build  in order to let another dev confirm
> that a bug had been fixed. This is not convenient, and I would thus vote
> for
> sharing, one way or another, the nightly buildbot binaries for Windows.

I think just a note next to the download link isn't enough esp. for Windows
users.
IMO we'd better also adapt the command prompts to remind (or nag, if you
want) users of unstable builds over and over again that they're using a test
build.
So maybe change
>>
into something like:
(unstable test build) >>

Philip



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