Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] misleading description on Wireshark Download page

[Balint Reczey <balint.reczey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/06/2011 12:25 AM, Chris Maynard wrote:
> Balint Reczey<balint.reczey@...>  writes:
>
> > We already provide automated development builds at
> > ftp://ftp.wireshark.org/automated/ .
> > I think those are enough. Distributions are also free to package svn snapshots.
>
> That's true, but those automated builds aren't announced on the wireshark-
> mailing list(s) when they're made, nor do they appear center-stage on
> http://www.wireshark.org/ with the other other stable releases, so I suspect
> that there are a lot of users out there that aren't even aware of them.
I think we could emphasize their availability on the front page.

> The other thing about the development release is that it's sort of an indication
> from the development team that, "yeah, this is a development release and you
> might encounter some problems with it, but we believe it's at least in
> reasonable enough shape that you should find it useful for most purposes".
> Contrast that with automated releases which could contain features in just about
> any state of development.  Unless you're following along closely to
> wireshark-dev, wireshark-bugs, etc., you probably don't have a good sense of
> which automated release is likely OK to use and which you should probably avoid.
When we used to announce development releases we could point users to a set of 
automated build known to work.

> Well, I don't have any particularly strong opinion on this matter either way,
> but I'm just presenting some counter-arguments as food for thought.
I think we are used to releasing the development builds, but I don't think they 
were used widely and we could replace them with announcing interesting automated 
builds.

Cheers,
Balint

> - Chris