[Potlatch-dev] Testing new versions

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:12 AM, SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
> How hard would it be have a version of Potlatch2 available after merging for
> "final testing" before becoming the default P2 version on the site?  To be
> useful it'd need to be able to be invoked with a GPX file (not necessarily
> as another "edit" dropdown, though that'd be nice).  With the best will in
> the world, sometimes when fixing stuff other stuff breaks, and it'd be nice
> to be able to catch any issues before they go live for everyone.

I also think this would be really useful. There was a recent bug that
I couldn't reproduce on my machine but I could reproduce on the
deployed site. Unfortunately I couldn't distinguish* between
"something unique about my machine" and "bug has been fixed in master,
but not yet deployed". Having access to a bleeding edge build deployed
on openstreetmap.org would have been very useful in that case.
Similarly, if we suspect a new bug report has already been fixed, we
could just say "Would you mind trying to reproduce it on the beta
site?"

Steve
* Ok, I guess I could have tried to find out the version number of the
deployed version, then checkout that version.