Versionning vs. Community Testing

Imported From: http://groups.google.com/group/in-portal-dev/browse_thread/thread/b8c13ec4f7790319#

I've read all the related pages about contributing to In-Portal, and asking community to use and understand SVN and/or Tortoise is not in our favor.

I read all messages posted in dev and bug groups, and most of them are about functionality that users can effectively test. But when a user want to test the result of a patch, it's time consuming to install and use all theses tools.

I'm one of this users, who spend many hours everyday testing and reporting carefully all bugs to improve interface, and at the same time, I'd like to install theses patched kernel to test them. But installing isn't possible if I don't spend time applying patches, and moving files for testing on live websites. Sadly an average day is only 24 hours long...

I'm asking you to provide, whatever you'll call it, a place where we can download a full package, updated weekly, for example. All major software companies are doing the same for their community, why we don't? If you think my opinion is not the average one, please use Poll function to have opinion from others